https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2018/04/30/doctor-accused-branding-women-sex-cult-worked-columbia-st-marys-hospital/555714002/
Danielle D. Roberts, a 36-year-old family doctor, has been identified in multiple media accounts as a leader of Nxivm, a controversial self-help group. Some female members were brainwashed by founder Keith Raniere, branded with his initials and coerced into having sex with him, authorities say.
Records show Roberts has worked in recent years at St. Mary's, Columbia St. Mary's Ozaukee in Mequon and Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Hospital.
Caryn Kaufman, a spokeswoman for Ascension Wisconsin, said Roberts was never employed directly by St. Mary's but worked for a staffing agency that provided temporary workers for the hospital. Ascension owns St. Mary's and its affiliates.
“As soon as we learned of her alleged behavior in New York, we immediately notified the placement agency and revoked approval of Danielle Roberts for any future assignments at any of our sites of care," Kaufman said
Ascension officials, however, did not say when Roberts began filling in at St. Mary's or when she was dropped. They also did not disclose how many hours a month she put in at the three facilities.
Roberts' resumé says she began working in Wisconsin six years ago. She first received a temporary medical license here in January 2013 and a standard one three months later. Her Wisconsin credentials expired in February. She is still licensed in New York.
A May 2016 posting on an internal St. Mary's message board listed Roberts as one of seven doctors and other health care officials who "have joined the Medical or Allied Health staff at one or more (Columbia St. Mary's) facility."
Dorsey said Roberts told him that she worked at St. Mary's one week a month.
During one of their conversations, Dorsey said, the doctor talked up an "amazing guy" who was leading some New York seminars. He took her card and later got a text from Roberts.
But what struck Dorsey the most, he said, was the doctor's "disheveled appearance" and the fact that she seemed to be operating in "some kind of a haze." On his final day in the hospital, he searched her name online, finding out about her ties to Raniere and the allegations that she branded his followers.
He said he then filed a complaint on St. Mary's website, linking to a news story on the sex cult and Roberts. In response, he got a note thanking him for the information and vowing to follow up. The note had a request for confidentiality. He has heard nothing since.
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Not sure if this has anything to do with anything, but @fogdryer has been working on Milwaukee and Racine Wi Hospitals and The Catholic Church
I know a lot of the Catholic Hospitals in this area have been taken over by Ascension
hopefully @fogdryer will have something more on this
Medical helicopter crash kills 3 in Wisconsin
Skies were clear with calm winds and good visibility at the time of the crash, with temperatures near 32 degrees, according to ABC News meteorologists.
In a joint statement, Air Methods and Ascension Wisconsin said it is "deeply saddened and mourning the loss of three teammates who were aboard the air medical helicopter that went down in Hazelhurst, Wisconsin, on April 26
http://abcnews.go.com/US/medical-helicopter-crash-kills-wisconsin/story?id=54789003
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Vindicator ago
How do these people fall for this stuff? It's like they have not sense whatsoever.
Cara_C ago
Smart and sensible people can get sucked into scams and cults. The scammer usually offers love, acceptance, encouragement, enlightenment, hope, or promises of a brighter future. At the outset, the scammer and his or her group often seem nice and reasonable. It's often all positive at first. Once the victim trusts the scammer, the brainwashing, control, and abuse start, little by little. The victim thinks they're dealing with a good person who cares about them and has a lot to offer them if they can stick it out, so when things start seeming weird, they often give them the benefit of the doubt. As they invest more time, energy, and money, they become more reluctant to acknowledge they've been scammed. Like a gambler, they keep investing more and more, hoping all their time and effort will eventually pay off. By the time they realize it's an abusive situation that will never yield any kind of positive outcome, they're often trapped or feel trapped, drained of energy, money, resources, self-esteem, and outside support.
Vindicator ago
I suppose you're right. That would really suck. I have a relative who actually shelled out money to do one of those silly-ass hot coal walks. But she also gave herself diverticulitis and pancreatitis trying to do a 40-day juice fast, so...Darwin Award winner.