Tag: sexual abuse
Lynette’s Law supporters disappointed therapy abuse will not become crime
by Meg Tully | April 9, 2013 | General Assembly, News | 1 |
After a difficult few months of fighting to pass Lynette’s Law — a bill to prohibit sexual abuse by therapists — Heather Lynette Sinclair and bill co-sponsors got less than half of what they wanted.
Read MoreMaking sexual abuse by therapists a crime is one woman’s crusade
by Len Lazarick | April 1, 2013 | General Assembly, News | 3 |
A bill seeking to make the abuse of patients by their therapists a crime has brought together an unlikely team of legislators and a young woman who could have never imagined herself so immersed in state legislation, coined “Lynette’s Law,” HB 60. Heather Lynette Sinclair, 27, turned to Maryland lawmakers in hope that she might be able to end an invisible chain of abuse within the mental health field.
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