"FARMINGTON, Utah — A therapist based in Davis County has been charged with abusing a "vulnerable" woman over a span of several years "under the guise of providing her therapy."
Maurice Wade Harker, 54, was charged Tuesday with aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult and kidnapping — both second-degree felonies.
According to the charging documents, Harker repeatedly abused a client of his between 2012 and 2021. The woman suffered serious injuries throughout this time, and she said she even thought she might die during one of the sessions.
The woman said Harker used aggressive, hands-on and even violent tactics, claiming he had to do so because she was possessed by a demon. The victim had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses. She had been abused as a child, court documents stated, and Harker "preyed upon her vulnerabilities."
Prosecutors say Harker's repeated assaults resulted in multiple physical injuries. These included a broken thumb, a knee injury, black eyes from being elbowed by Harker, and neck injuries. She said he would even pin her down and cover her mouth and nose, claiming this would help get rid of her "demon."
The Rolling Stone article states that Harker is "fairly well-known in the [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] community." In 2005, he founded Life Changing Services, a pornography addiction treatment group that appears to be based on LDS principles, but not directly sponsored or supported by the church."
"addiction" In other words, normal sexual desires.
"Sons of Sacrifice, for “men with same sex attractions who want sexual self-mastery”"
Of course, they would have a program like this, although it appears everyone suffers equally there.
"Such recollections, however, are also intermingled with feelings of shame, self-hatred, and even, in some cases, thoughts of suicide as a result of undergoing treatment."
The effects of the program in general.
This might have something to do with Elsevier's apparent love for charging extortionate prices, so that someone can access individual papers.
Remember, that it was these kinds of companies which led to Aaron Schwartz being driven to suicide (over a very hefty prison sentence) for the terrible crime of... Uh. Leaking scientific papers which weren't even funded by them.
You must not have one of your researchers allegedly* experiment on minors 70 years ago, we will punish you very harshly for that forever.
If you're driving them to suicide with fringe religious therapies today, that is perfectly okay.
*Seems to have been debunked.
I think the British Government did that but literally everyone ignored them when they did.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/15/proton-mail-founder-vows-to-fight-australias-esafety-regulator-in-court-rather-than-spy-on-users I feel like statements like this exaggerate how much power she actually has (Proton is a *Swiss* company), but it is important to pushback against her.
Useful to consider that the original post references an article where someone literally just ignored the criminality outside of a cursory mention (which there seemed to be little of) and complained about something else.
And it was very distracting as you're literally there to read about the criminality, not someone's QAnon-like rant.
I don't think I've seen takes like that, that bad, in quite some time though. This one is less bad but clearly a dog-whistle, and it's worth watching out for that.
Supposed to take someone seriously who is like tripping QAnon flag after QAnon flag... Including the trans prisoners one.
So, saw it again, this time from a QAnon-adjacent data broker adjacent "think of the children" advocate. One of the people pushing for things like the chat control.
I have like every base covered...
"they have a sexual interest in children" I'm noticing a strange emphasis on this in a couple of articles.
It's really strange to specifically make a point out of it, especially when it overshadows what crime it is someone is actually carrying out.
Is this some new Q dog-whistle...?
From a psychological standpoint, it is also not that which is the problem per say... And I think it just makes people paranoid...
It's also just plain distracting...
"A grand jury in Mississippi determined that there was no criminal conduct on behalf of the officer who shot and wounded an 11-year-old boy in his home who had called authorities for help."
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