Stephen Collins, say it ain't so!

[LurkerInNJ]

Except your wife secretly taped your confession during therapy sessions and released the tapes rather conveniently right now, during your extremely bitter divorce instead of when she first learned of the incidents. He’s exposed himself to a few young girls over the years.

Not excusing what he did … but good luck getting people who realize what they did was wrong and want to get help and support when things like this happen.

TMZ has the tape with the victims names removed

TMZ

[Czarcasm]

Ninja’d, damn it! I was going to go with “From “7th Heaven” to 2nd Circle of Hell” as a thread title.

[Cartooniverse]

This will likely cost him his Starfleet pension.

What??? Too soon?

[muldoonthief]

That explains why Dennis & Dee are so screwed up.

[PSXer]

@Cartooniverse

This will likely cost him his Starfleet pension.

What??? Too soon?

wow I never realized that was him. you learn something new every day

[woodstockbirdybird]

First internet comment I read this morning on the story: “Damn, you can’t even pretend to be a priest and not touch kids.”

[The_Second_Stone]

He is a bad man for abusing his wife.

His wife is a bad human being for taping a therapy session and even worse for release it to the public just for kicks and revenge.

[Dale_Sams]

@Cartooniverse

This will likely cost him his Starfleet pension.

What??? Too soon?

Doubt he got any. “Merging with/becoming a non-corporeal superior lifeform” isn’t covered.

[Typo_Negative]

@The_Second_Stone

He is a bad man for abusing his wife.

His wife is a bad human being for taping a therapy session and even worse for release it to the public just for kicks and revenge.

This is what I thought. No good guys in this story.

[terentii]

So much for the confidentiality of the doctor’s office. Next time you spill your guts in therapy, be sure Big Mother isn’t listening.

But of course, things like that can’t happen in America! [Stifles sick laugh.]

[Miller]

@The_Second_Stone

He is a bad man for abusing his wife.

Was he also slapping his wife around, or did you mean to write “niece?”

[The_Second_Stone]

I incorrectly assumed that he abused his wife. That isn’t in the story. He’s just a child molester and the wife is a creep. And apparently one of the children in question is the niece of a neighbor.

[E-DUB]

There’s got to be a “Gold Monkey” joke in there somewhere but my bad taste gene hasn’t kicked in yet today.

[Justin_Bailey]

@terentii

So much for the confidentiality of the doctor’s office. Next time you spill your guts in therapy, be sure Big Mother isn’t listening.

But of course, things like that can’t happen in America! [Stifles sick laugh.]

Can someone translate this into something non-tinfoil types can read?

[Push_You_Down]

@Justin_Bailey

Can someone translate this into something non-tinfoil types can read?

I get the sentiment. The expectation is that your therapy session is confidential and secure…when it is not.

[Justin_Bailey]

@Push_You_Down

I get the sentiment. The expectation is that your therapy session is confidential and secure…when it is not.

But the therapist (or “Big Mother,” for that matter) didn’t betray the confidentiality of the session, his ex-wife did. And she isn’t bound by any kind of oath not to air his dirty laundry.

[Spice_Weasel]

I still think it’s really fucking creepy that she could legally secretly record a therapy session.

[Typo_Negative]

We’re told her lawyer advised her it was legal to secretly record the conversation because in California you’re allowed to secretly record conversations to gather evidence the other person committed a violent felony

I’m not so sure her lawyer was right. At least when it comes to therapy, where there is an expectation of privacy.

Can the resident lawyers clarify for us?

[The_Second_Stone]

@Spice_Weasel

I still think it’s really fucking creepy that she could legally secretly record a therapy session.

California lawyer checking in here. I think her lawyer was wrong, and this was a crime to record the session. I have doubts as to admissibility.

Cal. Penal Code 632
632. (a) Every person who, intentionally and without the consent of
all parties to a confidential communication, by means of any
electronic amplifying or recording device, eavesdrops upon or records
the confidential communication, whether the communication is carried
on among the parties in the presence of one another or by means of a
telegraph, telephone, or other device, except a radio, shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500), or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year,
or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment. If the
person has previously been convicted of a violation of this section
or Section 631, 632.5, 632.6, 632.7, or 636, the person shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), by
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or in the
state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(b) The term “person” includes an individual, business
association, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or
other legal entity, and an individual acting or purporting to act for
or on behalf of any government or subdivision thereof, whether
federal, state, or local, but excludes an individual known by all
parties to a confidential communication to be overhearing or
recording the communication.
(c) The term “confidential communication” includes any
communication carried on in circumstances as may reasonably indicate
that any party to the communication desires it to be confined to the
parties thereto, but excludes a communication made in a public
gathering or in any legislative, judicial, executive or
administrative proceeding open to the public, or in any other
circumstance in which the parties to the communication may reasonably
expect that the communication may be overheard or recorded.
(d) Except as proof in an action or prosecution for violation of
this section, no evidence obtained as a result of eavesdropping upon
or recording a confidential communication in violation of this
section shall be admissible in any judicial, administrative,
legislative, or other proceeding.
(e) This section does not apply (1) to any public utility engaged
in the business of providing communications services and facilities,
or to the officers, employees or agents thereof, where the acts
otherwise prohibited by this section are for the purpose of
construction, maintenance, conduct or operation of the services and
facilities of the public utility, or (2) to the use of any
instrument, equipment, facility, or service furnished and used
pursuant to the tariffs of a public utility, or (3) to any telephonic
communication system used for communication exclusively within a
state, county, city and county, or city correctional facility.
(f) This section does not apply to the use of hearing aids and
similar devices, by persons afflicted with impaired hearing, for the
purpose of overcoming the impairment to permit the hearing of sounds
ordinarily audible to the human ear.

[Andiethewestie]

Stephen Collins is a diddler? Ewww.