Porter Kirkwood and his experimental program of sex offender treatment of "juvenile sex offenders" in foster care - credentials of the "treater"

I covered in my two previous blog posts illegality of the so-called "sex offender treatment" of foster children adjudicated as juvenile delinquents, and multiple conflicts of interest of judicial candidate for Delaware County Family Court (NY) Porter Kirkwood in masterminding and executing such a program (and those are the conflicts I know about, who knows how many other conflicts are still undisclosed).

I would like to concentrate in this blog post on one issue: 

1. credentials of "Dr." Richard Hamill who was invited into the rural upstate Delaware County to run his "experimental program" of "treatment" of "juvenile sex offenders"; and

Kirkwood referred in his meeting with voters in October of 2015 that he was lucky to lure a Dr. Hamill to Delaware County to devise and run a treatment program for "juvenile sex offenders" in foster care.

Here is the obituary for Richard Hamill were people usually say the best thing about the dear departed.

According to his obituary, Hamill was a psychologist, not a medical doctor.

Hamill was a "consummate shopper" - and such habits must be fed with money, and a lot of money.

Hamill was also a "connoisseur of Scotch whiskey", and, please, don't tell me that such "expertise" comes without alcohol abuse.  

As a husband, he "emerged from a crucible of marriage with a soft glow" - which is an enigmatic way of saying, in my perception, that he did not want to be constrained by marriage and could be a philanderer.

Here is what his obituary says about "Dr." Hamill's professional career:

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For 30 years, Richard was Founder and Director of Forensic Mental Health Associates and consultant to St. Anne Institute. He creatively and tirelessly promoted community safety and best treatment practices in local and national arenas, and was a leader in the creation and management of numerous community task forces, service boards and programs, and professional organizations, such as the START Children’s Center and the NYS Alliance of Sex Offender Service Providers. He was consultant to various entities within the criminal justice system and adjunct professor at Union and Sage Colleges.

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Wow.

Imagine that 

1. a consummate shopper;
2. a connoisseur of Scotch whiskey;
3. a man who emerged from a crucible of marriage with a soft glow;
4. a consultant to "various entities within the criminal justice system" (an expert to prosecution at sex offender criminal trials - which requires neutrality);
5. a promoter of community safety (an advocate - doesn't mesh with expert neutrality);
6. a leader in creation and management of:
1. community task forces;
2. community service boards;
3. community programs;
4. professional organizations - one of them was a child victim advocacy organization "Start Children's Center"

So, the man 

1. ascertained convictions for sex offenses by his testimony, thus cornering his market for treatment;
2. got to treat convicted sex offenders on probation - and got to send those who did not want to get treated (because legally they were not sex offenders or because they could not afford treatment at $600 a pop from the "consummate shopper" "Dr" Hamill);
3. got to treat "child victims" of sex offenders.

One can emerge not only out of marriage with a soft glow with business opportunities heaped up upon you by "various entities within the criminal justice system".

According to Kirkwood, Hamill was the ultimate authority and the best expert in the far and wide of the State of New York on the issue of treatment of sex offenders.

Yet, there are sources that would disagree.

In 2009, the New York State Court of Appeals reversed a criminal conviction of a doctor from Albany, New York because of "Dr" Hamill's testimony.  The sentence that was overturned because of "Dr" Hamill's inappropriate testimony was 48 years (!).

Reportedly, a defense expert  in the above case basically called "Dr" Hamill, a "child advocate/expert for hire for the prosecution/treater of resulting convicted sex offenders" as a charlatan whose feet need to be put on fire.

Imagine that you are choosing a healthcare provider for treatment of your child.

Will you use for that purpose:

1. a spender (here your fee for "services" is skyrocketing);
2. a drinker;
3. a philanderer;
4. and an unscrupulous man who peddles his alleged "neutrality" while drumming up false convictions to get to treat both the alleged perpetrator and the alleged victim

I doubt it.

But that is the man who Porter Kirkwood enthusiastically invited to continue the glorious history of human experimentation on vulnerable populations in this country, and provide illegal and unnecessary "snake oil" to a captive audience - children committed to his client the Delaware County's foster care.

Do you really want Porter Kirkwood to be your Family Court judge for the next 10 years?

And I did not even start to describe the actual sex offender treatment that Porter Kirkwood subjected foster children to - at taxpayers' expense.