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	Psychiatrist Denied Prescription Drugs to Alleged Abuse Victim The IOL [Ireland] May 24, 2007 http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=220322126&p=zzx3zz83z The man who claimed that a priest sexually abused him threatened to report a leading psychiatrist to the Irish Medical Council for refusing to prescribe a specific drug to treat his self-diagnosed 'bipolar disorder'. Dr Anthony McCarthy told gardaí that given his "previous knowledge of the accused" he discounted his claims of sexual abuse and of being suicidal. The consultant psychiatrist, whose statement to gardaí was read to the jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on day-nine of the man's false allegations trial, told gardaí he refused to accept the accused's self-diagnosis of bipolar disorder and refused to prescribe him lithium. Dr McCarthy said the accused then threatened to report him to the Irish Medical Council for what he called "professional misconduct". He added that the accused told him about the alleged sexual abuse for the first time in January 2003 and not in August 2002 as he had claimed to gardaí. The jury was also shown a video recording of a garda interview with the accused in which he categorically denied Dr McCarthy's claim that he threatened to report him to the Irish Medical Council. He also claimed in the interview that his psychiatrist was lying when he said he did not believe his (accused's) account of this abuse. He said to gardaí at one point: "Why would I complain about someone then keep going to them?" The accused told gardai he had attended Dr McCarthy "to be detoxed from Valium". The 33-year-old accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons denies making a false statement to Detective Garda Brian Kavanagh at Kevin Street Garda Station on June 18, 2003 that acts of indecent assault and buggery had been committed on him by the priest in the period February to May 1981. The videoed interview showed the accused being adamant that the alleged sexual abuse took place in the front room of the priest's house even after gardaí showed him photographs of the house and told him that a protracted rape lasting 10 - 15 minutes could not have happened on a bright spring evening without someone from the street seeing it. Gardaí also told him that the internal walls in the house were extremely thin and if his mother had been sitting outside the door at the time of an alleged anal rape, she would have heard something. The trial continues before Judge Patricia Ryan and a jury of eight men and four women.
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