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| Former Prison Therapist From The High Country Loses License |
| By goblueridge.net |
| Published: 12/09/2009 |
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A sexual affair and shooting of a former patient give North Carolina Psychological Board reasons enough to revoke license. Kristel K. Rider, a former prison therapist who had a sexual relationship with one of her patients and then shot him will lose her license for one year according to a North Carolina Psychological Board ruling last week. According to published reports the relationship started when Rider was treating Lamount K. Friend at Neuse Correctional Institution in Goldsboro, NC earlier this year. Rider admitted having a sexually intimate relationship with Friend starting April 3, the night he was released from Neuse after serving five months for assaulting a female and carrying a concealed weapon. Rider, 28, was a staff psychologist until April 28 when she resigned after being confronted about the relationship. She had worked for the state Department of Correction since 2004. Prison system officials could find no evidence that the two had sex while Friend was incarcerated because he was shackled and the therapy sessions were held in a room with windows and with other people present. It is a felony for Correction employees to have sex with people in state custody, a crime punishable by up to 31 months in prison for each count. Read More. |
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