Dr. Robert Hadley Gross -- fraud and abuse of teenaged girls

[JaneLA]

Here's another fraud case... as well as assault.
I'm wondering if the psychs have named a mental illness for "psychs who feel
compelled to commit acts of fraud."

Then they could just plead "innocent by reason of insanity!"

5/10/97

Fugitive psychiatrist is arrested in London; Fort Worth doctor fled fraud
investigation
BYLINE: MARK SMITH; Staff

British police have arrested a fugitive Fort Worth psychiatrist sought for
nearly 10 months on criminal charges arising from an investigation of
insurance fraud at mental hospitals.
Dr. Robert Hadley Gross, 39, was arrested last week by London Metropolitan
Police and New Scotland Yard authorities at London's Heathrow Airport. He
was there to meet his wife and children, who were arriving from the United
States.
Besides the criminal charges, Gross faces $ 40 million in civil judgments
awarded to former patients

........

He was indicted in August on fraud charges alleging he accepted $ 861,000 in
kickbacks for referring patients to Psychiatric Institute of Fort Worth and
Bedford Meadows, both owned at the time by National Medical Enterprises.

Gross also is charged with making false statements to obtain a passport. He
faces a maximum 40-year sentence.

.........

State and federal district courts have ordered Gross to pay a total of $ 40
million in civil settlements for assaulting three teen-age patients. The
young women were pinned to the ground while health care workers ground their
fists into the patients' ribs and stomach as part of a therapy known as
"rage reduction. '' The psychiatrist told his patients that the therapy was
designed to allow patients to release their anger.

--Jane