You'd think being a psychologist, getting convicted of raping a 13-year-old male patient and going off to prison for 13 years, would be enough to keep you from ever practicing again.
Well, think again.
Heather Catallo of WXYZ reports that Oakland County psychologist Dr. Julian Gordon got his license back after serving his time in prison and became a counselor at a methadone clinic in Detroit.
And he ended up getting stabbed by one of his patients from the clinic, Tony Esparza, 27. Esparza tells WXYZ that he stabbed Gordon to fend off his sexual advances.
Esparza tells WXYZ that Gordon bought him gifts and offered to help the recovering heroin addict find a job. Gordon convinced him, while he was still a patient, to move in with him at his Waterford Township home.
He said Gordon did uncomfortable things like massage his back. He said he would wake up sometimes and Gordon was in his bed.
Finally, on May 11, he said Gordon tried making sexual advances at the home and he fought him off, using a knife. A police report said that Gordon had deep cuts on his left arm and left leg. Esparza was not charged.
Catallo confronted Gordon at a home in Birmingham. Gordon cracked open the door and denied being stabbed.
Catallo reports that the law will soon change so that folks in Gordon's situation cannot get their license back. -- Allan Lengel
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