Mental Health Therapist Charged with Child Abuse

A former mental health center therapist has been charged with drug and sex activities involving teenage boys under her care.

Media outlets report 34-year-old Tressie Hayes of Julian faces charges of sexual abuse by a parent or custodian, delivery of a controlled substance and child abuse or neglect creating risk of injury.

A criminal complaint says Hayes worked at Prestera Center in Danville and used drugs and had sexual intercourse with two boys that she was counseling. Boone County Sheriff Rodney Miller says some of the activity allegedly occurred at Hayes' office. Miller says Hayes no longer works at Prestera.

Prestera declined comment.

Hayes was being held Monday evening at the Southwestern Regional Jail on $120,000 bond. An after-hours message left with her attorney, Wendle Cook, wasn't immediately returned.


Ricardo Villalobos - Therapist, White Collar Child Abuser, Abuse and Trauma enabler for little children,Child Abuse Fabricator, big time liar.
1908 T Street, NW, Suite A
Washington , DC , 20009
Phone: 2022972825
email:Therapist@ricardovillalobos.info
Woodburn Mental Health Clinic, Annandale, Virginia
Kolmac Clinic, Silver Spring, Maryland
Whitman-Walker Clinic, Arlington, Virginia
The Women's Center, Vienna, Virginia
Argus House for Adolescent Boys, Arlington, Virginia
Will County Dept. of Mental Health, Addictions Counseling Center, Joliet, Illinois

Meet Mr.Ricardo Villalobos: http://www.ricardovillalobos.info/
http://www.lighthorse.org
Clinical Director

LightHorse Healthcare, Inc.
2060 Dan Proctor Drive
Suite 3300

P.O. Box 5250
St Marys, GA 31558

phone: (912) 882-3800
fax: (912) 882-3303  LightHorse Healthcare, Inc.

1712 Osborne Road St. Marys GA 31558   ph: 912-882-3800

in 2006, Ricardo Villalobos concocted a bizzare fabrication of child sexual abuse allegation designed to further his career as an expert witness at the expense of two innocent children by filing a bogus CPS complaint that he knew was false claiming that the two little girls he was seeing needed his therapy for abuse inflicted upon them by their father. The mother of the two children a naive and delusional immigrant was being manipulated into seeking Mr. Villalobos's therapy through her pro bono attorney Robert Machen ( later Convicted in a Federal Court for 3 counts of felony acts and jailed for a year) among the mother's wild claims was that the child's father was a Espionage agent wanted by the United States and the Soviet Union for multiple accounts of National Security crimes in both countries.

Mr. Villalobs was provided evidence that the mother was delusional and had sued ( via her attorney Robert Machen) another psychologist Dr. Charles Burt who concluded that the mother was paranoid delusional.
Mr. Villalobos buried evidence that he was provided and started manipulating the children in closed therapy biweekly for over a year - with the intention of manipulating the children.

The children rebelled at Mr. Villalobos, refused to see him and showed resentment at his manipulations, to which Mr. Villalobos concocted a bizarre theory that the children are really showing their anger at their dad for the abuse by treating him as their dad.
+Several people have questioned Mr. Ricardo Villalobos and his credibility as to his intentions as a therapist.

+In 2008, Judge Charles Maxfield of the Fairfax Circuit Court issued an court order preventing Ricardo Villalobos from having any further contact with two young children he was providing therapy on a bi-weekly basis for over a year while claiming that the children were depressed and confused due to sexual and physical abuse by their father that he had diagnosed.

+In 2007 Judge Leslie Alden of Fairfax Circuit found Ricardo Villalobos's expert testimony lacking any credibility.

+Mr. Villalobos came to court to testify as a expert witness on child abuse - when asked if he had brought his credentials/resume/curricum vita with him. His answer was No, I did not think it was needed in court. (During his testimony, it was learned that, he had never testified as a expert witness before and hence did not know he should have brought his resume with him to court.

+Ricardo Villalobos was conspiring with a convicted felon Lawyer Robert Machen ( Who spent a year in a federal prison) and CPS worker Shannon Traore aka Shannon Tyler...( who was later fired from Fairfax County Child Protective Services).
see:Fairfax County CPS SocialWorker accused of Fabricating Child Abuse allegations.



On December 3, 2010, detectives from the Harford County Child Advocacy Center charged a Whiteford psychologist Dr. David Schrumpf with several counts of sexual abuse of a minor and sexual offenses. The investigation began when the CAC received reports of abuse from two children who were receiving therapy from him.

The alleged abuse occurred over several months during 2010 in his office in Fallston. Schrumpf, 55, is being held at the Harford County Detention Center with no bail.

Anyone from the public with further information concerning this investigation is asked to contact Trooper Michelle Workman at the Harford County Child Advocacy Center at 410-638-3294 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 410-638-3294



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Mental Health Therapist charged with child sexual Abuse
A former mental health center therapist has been charged with drug and sex activities involving teenage boys under her care..see link above

Psychologist charged with assault, child abuse at a Silver Spring Clinic in Washington

BSO Case Number: BS10-12-4847
PIO Number: 10-12-19
Date: 12/22/10
Time: 11 a.m. Jurisdiction: Pembroke Pines
Place of Occurrence: 8770 NW 7 Ct., Pembroke Pines

A Broward County speech pathologist isn’t saying much after Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives took him into custody for possession of child pornography.

Following over a dozen tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited children alerting of a computer user who was uploading and sharing pornographic images of children, BSO detectives with the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force conducted an investigation and obtained a warrant to search a home in the city of Pembroke Pines.

When detectives arrived at the home at 8770 NW 7 Ct. on Dec. 22, they came in contact with their target, 66-year-old Warren Day, who at the time was on his computer viewing a child pornography website.
A preliminary evaluation of Day’s computer revealed hundreds of pornographic images of children between 1 and 12 years of age engaging in sexual acts with adults, other children and in sexually explicit positions.

Day refused to answer questions without the presence of his lawyer, but stated “I am a piece of (vulgar term for excrement)” in the presence of BSO detectives.

Day was arrested and charged with 50 counts of child pornography. More charges could be filed pending a full forensic analysis of Day’s computer and two other media devices found inside his home. He was arrested in 1982 in Dade County for committing a sexual act against a child and served two years probation. Due to the date of his offense, he was not required to register as a sexual offender.

For the past seven months Day has worked as a speech pathologist at the Hollywood Rehab Center working with seniors, but throughout his 30 year career he has come in contact with children from kindergarten to high school. He was previously employed by the Dade County School System.

Detectives have identified at least one victim and fear there could be others. If you know anyone who’s been a victim of Warren Day you’re asked to contact BSO Detective Jennifer Montgomery at 954-888-5239 or Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-TIPS (8477).

INVESTIGATORS: Det. Montgomery, ICAC
THIS REPORT BY: Keyla Concepción/PIO 12/23/2010 0810

Therapist Charged with Producing Child Pornography

Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a respiratory therapist who sometimes worked in the pediatric unit at Kansas University Medical Center has been charged in federal court with producing child pornography and attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet.

Michael D. Toal, 55, of Kansas City, Mo., was charged in a criminal complaint filed on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City. Toal had his initial court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah W. Hays this afternoon and remains in federal custody pending a detention hearing on Monday, March 1, 2010.

The federal criminal complaint alleges that Toal used a minor to produce child pornography on Aug. 2, 2009. According to an affidavit filed in support of the complaint, Toal told FBI agents that he sexually abused an 8-year-old child who was in his care at his house. While the victim was asleep, the affidavit says, Toal took sexually explicit photographs of the child with his digital camera and then loaded them onto his computer.

The federal complaint also charges Toal with attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet on Aug. 10, 2009. According to the affidavit, an agent at the FBI’s Denver, Col., division conducted an investigation using peer-to-peer file-sharing software and downloaded images of child pornography that were available to be shared from Toal’s computer, which was using a similar software program.

Law enforcement officers interviewed Toal at his home earlier this month and seized his computer, which as later investigation revealed, contained a large quantity of child pornography, the affidavit says.

The government filed a motion today to keep Toal in federal custody without bond, alleging that he is a danger to the community. According to the motion for detention, Toal told agents that he inappropriately touched at least one child patient while working as a respiratory therapist. Toal has increased his access to children who are vulnerable, the motion says, by becoming a volunteer with Jackson County’s CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) program for abused and neglected children who are in the care and custody of the state.

The motion for detention also alleges that, because Toal faces a lengthy prison sentence if convicted, he is a flight risk. Under federal statutes, a conviction for producing child pornography carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in federal prison without parole, up to a sentence of 30 years in federal prison without parole.

Phillips cautioned that the charges contained in this complaint are simply accusations, and not evidence of guilt. Evidence supporting the charges must be presented to a federal trial jury, whose duty is to determine guilt or innocence.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Katharine Fincham. It was investigated by task force officers with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Project Safe Childhood

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

Counselor indicted on charges of sexual assault of 3-year-old patient

An Albuquerque clinical psychologist has been indicted on charges of rape and sexual contact of a then-3-year-old patient during a counseling appointment at Samaritan Counseling Center that occurred two years ago.

Dr. Luis Vargas, 66, was booked and released from the county jail Wednesday after a grand jury indicted him on March 13.

His attorney said late Thursday that Vargas’ patients are often troubled and prone to making false allegations.

                                             Dr. Luis Vargas

According to a police report, officers were called to the counseling center near Lomas and University NE in June 2015 after a woman reported that her granddaughter told her the psychologist touched her bottom and her genitals and spit in her mouth.

The woman said she had taken her granddaughter to the counseling appointment, and as they were leaving the little girl shouted “marrano” (pig) at Vargas. The woman said she asked her granddaughter why she had been rude to the doctor, and the young girl made the allegations, according to the report.

The girl went to a sexual abuse medical evaluation and provided more details of a sexual assault.

When officers talked to Vargas, he said the girl “was a client for two sessions” but he wanted to talk with his attorney before being interviewed. The attorney refused to schedule an interview, according to the report.

In September 2015, the police department forwarded the case to the District Attorney’s Office for review and possible prosecution.

It’s unclear why it took a year and a half for Vargas to be charged in the case.

Former Bernalillo County District Attorney Kari Brandenburg left office in January. Christopher Moore, a prosecutor for new District Attorney Raúl Torrez, said their office felt it was important to move forward with the case.

“There’s a little girl who said she was touched,” Moore said. “If it was your child, wouldn’t you want something done?”

A spokesman for the district attorney said there was a separate allegation in 2013 involving a boy, but the case was not indicted.

Vargas’ attorney Marc Lowry said his client is a trusted clinician who treats difficult cases of child abuse and occasionally the children transfer the blame for their trauma onto him.

“The allegation made here against Dr. Vargas is the product of sad, deeply disturbed patient who has been raised in an extremely chaotic home,” Lowry said in an emailed statement Thursday.

He said the 2013 allegation was also false and made by a troubled boy with a history of making “false allegations of sexual abuse.”

The Samaritan Counseling Center did not return a phone call asking if Vargas is still employed at the center, and it’s unclear if he continued to work as a counselor after the allegation.

He is listed in the University of New Mexico directory as an emeritus associate professor in the Department of Psychology and as a psychologist for programs for children and adolescents.

A UNM spokeswoman couldn’t immediately say if he was currently teaching at the school.

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Therapist accused of sexually abusing 2 girls

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Gilberto Suero, a clinical social worker and psychotherapist, is accused of abusing two girls during therapy sessions in his office on Richmond Road.(Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)

                                                      Gilberto Suero

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Dongan Hills psychotherapist stands accused of sexually abusing two girls who were his patients, according to police.

Gilberto Suero, 49, who claims to be a licensed clinical social worker, was taken into police custody at his office at 1272 Richmond Road at about 5 p.m. on Friday, according to a spokeswoman for the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.

The girls were victimized during therapy sessions in Suero's office, according to police.

Suero is accused of touching a 12-year-old girl on her inner thigh and buttocks and attempting to kiss her on April 6.

A then 8-year-old girl was allegedly touched numerous times on the breast and buttocks underneath her clothing including in July 2014 as reported to police on May 3 of this year.

Suero is listed on various career websites as a New York State licensed clinical social worker who graduated from Adelphi University.

He faces various charges that include sexual abuse of a victim under age 13 by a person over age 21, acting in a manner injurious to a child and forcible touching.

Public records indicate that he is being held at Rikers Island and is due back in Criminal Court on Thursday.

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Staten Island therapist charged with sexually abusing girls as young 8 years old

A Staten Island therapist was charged with sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl and a pair of sisters — ages 8 and 10 — and cops suspect there may be additional victims.

Court records provided a glimpse of Gilberto Suero’s alleged sick spree of perversion that landed him behind bars.

During a Dec. 23 session at his Richmond Road office in Dongan Hills, Suero sat the 10-year-old girl on his lap and kissed her on the cheek, court papers show. On the same day, the 8-year-old was also fondled. The girl told cops she was groped while she and the suspect watched videos, sources said.

The foster mother of the two younger girls contacted the Seaman Society, the organization that paid Suero to provide therapy for those girls, on May 3 to complain about the therapist. The girls’ biological father was then contacted because his permission was needed to conduct physical exams of the children.

The father, it turned out, is also a patient of Suero, sources said. In a rage, he called the suspect, who denied any wrongdoing. But during a controlled call set up by police, Suero told the foster mother that he put the 8-year-old on his lap during a movie and that he may have touched her by accident, sources said.

Police in late April learned of the 13-year-old girl, who told her mother Suero touched her during her therapy sessions. The teen, who just recently started seeing Suero to deal with self-esteem issues, said the suspect didn’t do anything wrong the first two sessions because her mother was present. The next two times she went alone. He allegedly fondled her during a session on April 6.

“You are so beautiful,” he said, according to court papers.

During the next session, on April 20, Suero tried to kiss her on the lips, sources said. She said she pulled away, but he still managed to kiss her on the nose — and tried to get her to exchange photos, according to court papers and sources.

Suero, 49, was arrested Friday and charged with felony sex abuse, plus misdemeanors for sex abuse, forcible touching and acting in a manner injurious to a child. He’s being held on $50,000 bail. His shady past includes an arrest for selling drugs, sources said Monday.

A woman neighbors identified as Suero’s wife refused to comment outside the family’s home.

“I don’t know him,” she said.

Neighbors said Suero has lived there for about seven years.  “His kids play with my kids,” said a neighbor who requested anonymity. "He’s such a nice guy. It’s unbelievable.”

Seaman Society officials declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation. The Administration for Children’s Services, which hired the agency, said it is investigating.

“We are deeply disturbed by these allegations, and are working with the NYPD to support this investigation,” an ACS spokesman said in a statement. “We are also working closely with our contract provider to identify and ensure the safety of any child with whom this individual may have been in contact.”

Suero has four arrests — three are sealed and the other dates back to 1990, 

when he was charged in a Manhattan drug case, with use, sale and possession of narcotics.

“There’s a lot of kids over here, so it’s really not good,” said a woman who manages a nearby business. “I’m very surprised. You hear about stuff like this, but it’s just very close. It’s uncomfortable for me. Young children — boys or girls, I mean, you’re a grown man. It’s pretty disgusting.”

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Victorville therapist accused of sexually abusing developmentally disabled patient

Gregory Harmeling, 45, a licensed marriage and family counselor, was arrested Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016, on suspicion of sexual assault involving a developmentally disabled patient in Victorville.

VICTORVILLE >> A licensed therapist is accused of sexually abusing a mentally disabled woman during one of their sessions in his Victorville office, and detectives feel more victims may be out there, officials said.

Gregory Harmeling, 45, of Victorville was arrested late Thursday morning on suspicion of sexual penetration with a foreign object and abuse of a dependent adult, San Bernardino County sheriff’s booking records show. Harmeling has since been released after posting $100,000 bail.

Investigators with the sheriff’s Victorville Station learned the victim had gone to a counseling session with Harmeling in early December at his office at 15000 Seventh St. He also has an office at 1406 Bailey Ave. in Needles, officials said.

During her second visit, Harmeling allegedly began brushing the woman’s hair and eventually began touching her in an inappropriate manner, according to a Sheriff’s Department news release.

Harmeling reportedly locked the door to his office, “pushed the victim on to her back, climbed on top of her and sexually assaulted her,” the statement read.

Investigators say Harmeling continued for several minutes despite the victim protesting the attack.

Detectives were able to gather information supporting the allegations made by the victim, according to authorities. Detectives believe other victims may exist.

His profile page on Psychology Today lists Harmeling’s areas of expertise: “I specialize in working with groups such as the LGBT youth and adults, victims of crime, and foster care children and adolescents.”

Anyone with information about this investigation can call Detective Dana Weinberg of the Victorville Station at 760-243-1989. Callers wishing to remain anonymous can call the We-Tip Hotline at 1-800-78CRIME (27463), or can leave information on the We-Tip website at www.wetip.com.