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viewer. Discretion advised this episode
is called beware of sexual predators who take appointments.
Thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting the
Vancouver, True Crime podcast. Beware of the sexual predator
who takes appointments, because he is the most stealthiest.
A Predators who are the most treacherous individuals, who can
engage and Disturbing Behavior their crimes and behavior.
Often goes unreported, they tend to be very charismatic and they
are a highly chameleons of social predatory ability.
Most often the victim is a woman, a vulnerable teen or
children, majority of the time. The abuser is a man, he's
charismatic, he's confident, he has a good reputation and a mile
long resume to match. He's an excellent listener.
He'll Focus his attention on his targets causing them to
overshare. He's also a very good
manipulator, exploiting The vulnerability of his victims
easily once he has identified the cracks of each of his
victims armor. An example, a woman who's
recently been dumped by her boyfriend, he'll maintain her
sense of desirability. Through his compliments, her
appearance using flattery and positive attention to win her
over. They also will exploit their
victims Finance reputationally emotionally and most of the
times, unfortunately sexually carefully covering their tracks
to avoid. They seduce and discard a broad
spectrum of trusting individuals.
The ability to go undetected is perhaps the most dangerous
aspect of predatory behaved by contrast individuals who are
outwardly. You serve and tolerant
condescending or easily identifiable, social sexual
manipulators have had years of practice of hiding their dark
traits, sharpening their abilities and learning from
trial and error of who they can apply their behavior and abuse
to, and who they cannot? They're smart enough to be a
wolf in sheep's clothing. Where disguise I use a term
social Predator here to refer as a most stealthy Predator.
Although, the category offenses can blur social, Predators can
certainly engage in multiple types of abuse being sexual
misconduct. Obviously the most serious of
one of the most commonality is that they prey on victims,
emotion, and resource either for their own gain or simply because
they enjoy doing so. Many social Predators, have
Psychopathic narcissistic traits yet if formally evaluated, they
might fall short of an actual diagnosis of an antisocial
personality disorder. They may lack the ability to
present. They may lack the ability to
perceive or care. How their behavior affects other
leading them to break. Promises reveal private
information take credit for other people's accomplishments.
And get away with it by Nifty too often in a drawn-out.
Dance with the victim that targets our ego and their unique
vulnerability. Sexual predators groom, a child
by providing the affection in the attention that the child
covets social Predators groom by providing admiration and respect
he or she craves in some cases, Predators manipulate through
Focus flattery. Why everyone has an area in
which they are uniquely susceptible to praise
affirmation or because some people become suspicious when
showered with obvious flattery. Social Predators, won't just
focus on a person's need, but will confide how much, his or
her emotions personally, resonates with them, the same
emotions as their prey leaving the victims, feeling, both
grateful and relieved, to finally have met someone.
Who knows and understands how they feel, they often select
victims. Who Already lack credibility
based on background social status criminal records or
historical or other situational factors. this creates victim,
vulnerability coupled with decreased credibility provides a
potent power imbalance, which also serves to decrease the
likelihood that the victim will report any of the perpetrators
who have crossed the line many victims of sexual harassment or
abuse, who suffered from a compromised credibility Romain
Of in silent, they fear that the perpetrator will expose their
own disreputable past or emotional problems.
And they're afraid that they will never be believed over an
individual who holds relative power.
There are those who take their time to shop to choose our
victims carefully. They'll come back several times
during their stocking period before acting out their sexual
fantasy impulsions. They may start confiding and
talking about personal aspects of their life.
This is called the stocking period.
Before acting out their sexual fantasies, they will start
usually confining and personal aspects of their life.
Many of the very experienced and cunning manipulators to lower,
their vigilance will talk about their wife and children.
And if they're unmask, they usually use the person of
deliberately exciting them. This is part of the behavior to
transfer and project responsibility of the act upon
others. The broken trust the fondling
obscene gestures and big youis sexual suggestion, harassment
can often cause profound psychological harm on the
victims. It will take some cases, many
years, having a long-lasting impact things, you can do, if
you are an appointment and you're feeling at it, he's at
anytime you have the right to stop the session, if you're
feeling uncomfortable or you feel that any Behavior verbal or
physical, is crossing the line. Always listen to your inner
voice. If possible never forget.
That the most important person you should keep in mind as
yourself, your security is of primary importance, a farmer
Penticton. Massage therapist has been
ordered to pay more than a hundred thousand dollars.
He had his license suspended for over 25 years for sexual
misconduct. The decision was released on
December 21st by the College of massage therapists of BC find
Leonard Cricket ten thousand dollars in ordered him to pay
more than 95,000 dollars in cost.
He's unable to reapply to practice and taupe 2048 the acts
of sexual misconduct involves Six Women.
Between the times of 2009 and 2019, when crack addict was
practicing in Surrey in Penticton.
Some of the allegations include touching a patient vagina and
inserting his fingers into a patient's anus.
Pressing his groin and to a patient's groin and other sexual
that by engaging in this conduct mr.
Crackit that he has committed professional misconduct.
The decision said the panel stressed.
There's a strong need to express to mr.
Crackit and other members of the profession that this type of
conduct is unacceptable, sexually touching patients will
not. Be tolerated, the panel, also
stated a strong message must be sent to the profession in
respect of mr. Crickets other misconduct
including engaging in close, personal relationship with a
patient for personal and financial gain and practicing,
massage therapy without a professional liability
insurance. The public must have confidence
in the integrity. Garrity of the profession and
the college ability to regulate the profession and the Public's
interest, the decision said, this is one of the most serious
cases ever to come before the disciplinary committee due to
the nature and the gravity of multiple incidences of
misconduct involving many different patients.
Extending over a period of time. The decision said, Sexual
misconduct is particularly a serious form of misconduct
because it involves a breach of trust, and the abuse of
patients, the duration and frequency of mr.
Crackit conduct was serious. And the impacts on the
complainants or profound Leonard Cricket lived or worked in
White, Rock, Surrey, and protectin British Columbia at
the time of the misconduct six different form.
Our clients of crackit filed allegations against him with the
college. Beginning, with the allegations
filed in 2019, their names were redacted in the published report
outlining. The reason behind the panel
decision. This is one of the most serious
cases to ever come before the disciplinary committee due to
the nature and gravity of multiple incidents of misconduct
involving many different patients.
Extending over a period of years reads, part of the Guess.
Fifth decision. The decision outlines 10
allegations. They range from touching the
patients for non-therapeutic purpose or sexual purpose
without the consent or inappropriate statements,
including initiating faith-based conversations, the panel also
found from August 20, 19300 M. November 21st, 2019, mr.
Cricket. Entered into a close personal
relationship with patients. Six engage in inappropriate and
unprofessional communication with patients six.
The decision said The college also said that cricket.
Violated. His order by failing, to inform
immediately of any locations, he was providing Massage Therapy
Services and it said he failed to have a shop room present
while treating women in July and August of 2019.
One of the victims of the disgraced, former Penticton
massage therapist claimed her faith and Christianity was
weaponized to gain her Trust. She testified that multiple
incidents during which crack it touched her vagina area pressed
his own groin against her hand while he worked on her.
The woman also testified that Cricket prayed for her during
the sessions and sometimes they prayed together.
She now believed that Cricket exploited, her faith I was very
vulnerable and I believe that he saw that and took advantage of
that she testified During that same period.
Crack it was subject to the college order.
Requiring him to have a chaperone present while he
worked on female clients. Patience, six told the panel a
chaperone was indeed in the room during his appointments.
But Cricket told her that person was simply job shadowing, and
the person didn't actually observe the treatment.
Patient one testified about the impact.
Of crack its conduct upon her intimacy.
She testified that it made her more nervous and second guess
people's opinions and recommendations.
Patient one. Testified that it made her not
want to pursue massage therapy or see a male practitioner.
Patient. Three described experience
anxiety attacks and other physical symptoms.
Patient for has not seen a massage therapist since crack it
and is now taking medication for depression and anxiety for
post-traumatic stress patient. Five feels that she has failed
as a mother and has not seen a massage therapist since Cricket.
Which has Affected her physically and she has heavily
relied upon those treatments. Patients. 6 describes a feeling
that crack. It took advantage of her trust
and vulnerability. Patient to describes the effect
of crickets conduct upon her. As a when patients six, rented a
home from cricket, he helped him rent out other residential.
He owned patients, six testified that crackit asked her to help
him rent out his properties, using her name crack.
It knew that his reputation might be a little bit tarnished
based on the news articles relating to the college
complaints against them. The decision States crack.
It was born on August 5th, 1971 and is currently Lee 51 years
old, he initially became a registrant of the collagen
October, 23rd 1995, the college submits that he was at the
material times, a senior member of the profession.
The earliest misconduct was from late 2011, at that time.
The respondent has been a registered massage therapist for
more than 16 years. The most recent conduct was in
2019. At that time, the respondent has
been registered massage therapist for more than 23
years. Well, the decision states that
some of the victims have filed, a complaint with the RCMP court
records. Just that crack.
It has not been charged criminally.
The particular in RCMP did not respond to a request for
comment, in total the panel. Found that Cricket committed
36th separate acts of professional.
Misconduct many involving touching for a sexual or
non-therapeutic purpose. Cricket was also cited for
flaunting a 20-19 order that was issued in the early stage of the
investigation. Action.
Requiring him to have a chop room presence while working with
female clients, filing weekly summary reports of his work and
keeping the college appraised of treatment locations, handle
finds a respondents personal relationship with patients 6 was
serious. The respondents conduct was a
breach of trust and abuse of power.
In Balance patients 6 was much younger and As a patient, the
respondents close personal relationship was exploited for
his personal and financial gain patients, ex told the panel.
She began to seek reck and March 2019.
When she was 21 years old for treatment of irritable bowel
syndrome on the recommendation of her mother who was also a
client of crack. She testified the first
appointment was at Lake City, Wellness in Penticton and later
saw crack it at other locations, for a total of 27 appointments,
over a period of seven months. Patient.
Six told the panel she was aware of earlier allegations of
crackit, but wasn't concerned, because she and Cricket were
both Christians allegation patient one.
The panel found in 2012, while providing massage therapy to
Patient one. Mr. Crackit engage in
inappropriate and unprofessional conduct by hugging the patient.
Made statements or inquiries of an unprofessional inappropriate
and a personal nature, asking patient one.
If he could pray for patient one and patient ones, placed his
hand under patients ones undergarment or otherwise move
patient one undergarment with outpatient one consent.
Massaged or otherwise touched patients.
One labia. For a non-therapeutic and for a
sexual purpose, he inserted his finger into patients, one's anus
for non for a sexual. purpose allegation to The panel found
that in March 2014. Well, providing massage therapy
to patient to made comments and statements of an unprofessional
and appropriate nature to patient to buy overly, sharing
personal details about his life, including his eldest daughter,
has daddy issues and God works room to heal people and God.
Works in mysterious ways and placed his hands under patients
to undergarment. And move.
Patient. Tubes undergarment with
outpatient. Twos, consent massage That
patients labia for a sexual purpose, directed patient to to
the edge of the massage table, to spread her legs wide open
when patient to did. So he placed himself between
patient, two legs and had patient to straddle him.
He faced patient to while in a seated while he was seated in
his position and pressed his groin into patient to his groin.
The panel, determined by a Engaging in this conduct mr.
Crackit breached, a section 2, a of the code of conduct of
ethical conduct in effect and he committed unprofessional conduct
and professional misconduct patient to describe the effect
of crack its conduct upon her as a follow.
Yeah, there was a continued preoccupation with doors locking
being locked. It would be intrusive thoughts
and I had a lot of anxiety every time my Phone rang because I was
terrified, he would call I knew that he had like assumed that he
had my number. And every time my phone rang I
would have this intense anxious feeling wondering who it is, was
it him? I was very start early and
jumpy. If I worked around my house and
something in the dish racks sought shifted suddenly, I would
jump out of my skin so I was hyper Vigilant and continue to
have Distressing thoughts and memory from that day.
There was a fundamental sense of betrayal and exploitation
because you're so vulnerable. When you get a massage, you're
agreeing to have that person in most cases.
You don't know. I didn't know him.
Usually like you're by yourself in a room with him, it's so
vulnerable. And I was so honest about him
how desperate I was so adamant that he could help me.
He spiritual language, he saw a painting himself someone that
God would use and God had use. So I felt a greater sense of
trust initially because we shared the same faith.
So here I am as a desperate patient, going to a professional
licensed. Massage therapist who's also a
Christian who speaks and spiritual term who exploited my
desperation the trust. I had in him.
He exploited that power and balance he harmed me.
And that was truly a huge emotional upset.
Yeah. Fundamentally I trusted him.
I believed in him. He said he could help me, he
exploited. That and hurt me.
Even like to this day, I prefer not to see male massage
therapist, because I feel very anxious in the beginning of the
massage, even with a female when I saw a male chiropractor who
specialize in treating migraines, I was anxious and
nervous and sick like years on. Take all these factors, come
together just to perpetuate as a Sense of betrayal, that he is
exploited. The trust that I placed in him
patient three the panel found that between 2009 and 2014.
While providing massage therapy to Patient three, crack crack
massage. Otherwise the panel found that
on or about November 10th 2016 while providing massage therapy
to Patient three mr. Craig Barrett Prettyman Rest his
groin against the patient's hand, the panel determined by
engaging this conduct mr. Crackit not only that he
committed, professional misconduct.
Patient for the panel found on February 19th while providing
massage the patient for mr. Crackit failed to provide
appropriate disrobing options or appropriately drape patient for
causing patient for. To sign a consent form.
While the patient was undressed and prone which exposed patients
for breast failed to appropriately drape, patient for
an exposed patient for buttocks without the patience for consent
and massaged and otherwise touch the patient's groin area.
Without the patient's consent. He crack it has Add professional
misconduct. Patient number five panel found
in February and March 2019. While providing Massage Therapy
Services to Patient 5, mr. Crackit pressed.
His groin against patients, fives hand for non-therapeutic
or asexual purpose. He placed his hand underneath
patients, five undergarment massage patients five breast for
a non-therapeutic or sexual purpose.
The panel, the panel determined by engaging in this conduct mr.
Cracker. It.
Breached section 21 of the code of ethics that are in effect of
section 4 and the boundaries of standard of practice, he
committed. Professional misconduct
allegations 67 patients. Panel found and 2019 while
providing Massage Therapy Services to patients X Mr. Mr.
Crack addict massage, otherwise touched patients, pubis labia
for a non-therapeutic and or a sexual purpose massage.
Otherwise touch the patient's groin area for a non made
statements inquiries of unprofessional.
Idiot nature. Including initiating faith-based
conversations asking, patients, 6.
If he could pray for her and or pray for patience six and her
presence. Engaging in inappropriate and
under professional conduct. By hugging patients, six made
statements of unprofessional, inappropriate and personal
nature by praying. He directed patients six to the
edge. He directed patients, six to the
edge of the massage table, to spread her legs is open, causing
their bodies. The come into contact, he
massaged, or otherwise touched patients.
Six gluteal cleft for a non-therapeutic or sexual
purpose. And pressed is going against
patients, six hand for a non-therapeutic sexual purpose.
This is one of the most serious cases to ever come before the
disciplinary committee, do the nature and gravity of multiple
incidents of misconduct involving many different
patients. Extending over a period of
years. Sexual misconduct is
particularly serious form of misconduct because it involves a
breach of trust and abuse of patients during the duration.
Ian and frequency of crickets conduct was serious.
The impact on his complaints were profound.
Mr. Crockett has engaged in other forms of misconduct,
including hugging to patients whom, he touched sexually.
Making inappropriate personal disclosures having inappropriate
face bathe conversations with three patients, whom he touched
sexually entering, into a close personal relationship with much,
younger patients for personal and financial gain.
If you been A victim of abuse or any type of abuse with a trusted
professional setting or anyone, most important thing you can do
is call 911 or right away. If you're in crisis, please call
one eight hundred five hundred. Six hundred 30 808.
If you want to report a person under the age of 19 to the
protection of the ministry of children or family development,
you can call 310 1234. No area code is required.
Please be safe out there.