Psychologist at Minnesota sex offender program charged with sexually assaulting two clients
A psychologist who worked for more than six years at a state-operated treatment center for sex offenders in northern Minnesota has been charged with sexually assaulting two men while they were in custody at the facility.
The psychologist, Michelle D. Brownfield, 38, of Duluth, was charged with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct involving the men, who were undergoing treatment for sexual offenses. A warrant covering Minnesota and its border states has been issued for her arrest.
The assaults occurred between 2016 and early 2018 on the campus of the state’s secure treatment facility in Moose Lake, including in rooms where clients undergo psychological assessments and polygraph tests, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Carlton County District Court.
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🤣🤣🤣 Sorry, I can’t stop laughing – this is so outrageously, bizarrely hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣
This is all so messed up…. what a waste. So sad on so many levels. No telling what the men endured and how she used her power and influence to manipulate them.
Apparently this was the only sexual behavior permitted to these inmates.
Unfortunately I don’t subscribe to the Star-Tribune. I can’t get past its paywall, and local TV coverage is more superficial.
For those who get the paywall issue, here’s Google’s cached version:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QKQnrJ4yNBcJ:https://www.startribune.com/psychologist-at-minnesota-sex-offender-program-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-two-clients/600049133/+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
If this URL doesn’t work for you, do a Google search of the article title (copy and paste from the site). Then, you should see three small, vertial dots to the right of the result(s). Click on those dots and a page should pop up allowing you to view the cached version. This works fairly often for paywalled sites, though not always. (I so love how Google continues to steal pay-walled material. They should be banned from Google for that!)
No matter who we are or the positions of authority one might claim, we are all humans and subject to failures in judgment. It is important that we establish ourselves in the knowledge of right and wrong and know how and when to avoid situations that can lead to wrong. I believe that the vast majority of registered citizens failed during a time of depression or loneliness. I would love to know the true backgrounds and actions of many of our ‘do-gooder’ politicians and LEO’s. Even PO’s can fall into the trap. It happened here in Brevard a few years ago. Being human ain’t easy.
FYI, unless you pay to Star Tribune, you can’t read the story.
But here we go again with stories like this and yet the only people anyone is worried about are those with prior records and registration.
I was able to read it by clicking the subdued X in the upper left of the little green box to clear it from the screen and any others that popped up in the way to reading it.
Here’s one trick you can try if you’re a Chrome user on a laptop or desktop (can’t figure out how to do it on the phone). On the top of the screen where you see the web address, there’s a little icon (right now as I’m on the FAC site obviously, to th left of the site address I see a lock icon). Click that icon, and you see “Connection is secure” and a list of options. Click on to “site settings” next to the gear shaped icon, and you get a new page pop up. On that page under “permissions” go to where it says “Javascript” and click to the right of that where it says “Allow (Default”) and set it to “block.”
Most paywalls and popup crap that litter most websites can be circumvented this way. It isn’t perfect but it is one way to get around these issues.
There are other outlets that are reporting on the story. Perhaps FAC will post one of those instead.
As a famous comedian once said “You just can’t make this stuff up!”
When the person in charge of treatment is no better or maybe worse than the person they are supposed to be treating.
I have yet to see or hear about one single “sex offender treatment program” that has the first to do with mental health. The court-ordered substance abuse – ahem, sex offender programs are just additional supervision, and civil commitment is just a substitute for prison.