THE FOLLOWING is a formal complaint written by James H., a reader and medical doctor whose 23-year-old daughter committed suicide last year after an overbearing and manipulative relative who worked as a certified psychotherapist convinced his daughter, with no evidence, that her parents had sexually abused her as a child. The daughter later admitted the accusations were untrue in writing, but was overcome by remorse and by a general breakdown.

The father is attempting to have the relative barred permanently from the psychology profession and the complaint is addressed to the relevant state licensing authorities.

The complaint reads:

Our daughter, Lizzy Marie, committed suicide on January 4, 2023. I hold Ms. Larington responsible for Lizzy Marie’s suicide.

In summary, Ms. Larington:

*Irresponsibly and recklessly intervened at S— University hospital to deny Lizzy Marie the help she so desperately needed by lying, purposely misdirecting the staff and by claiming expertise as a professional counselor formerly licensed in the state of M— even AFTER Lizzy Marie accused Ms. Larington herself of abuse.

*Recklessly cultivated and promoted false memories of sexual abuse by me, her father, alienating Lizzy Marie from her mom, sisters and me for FOUR years, destroying the only support Lizzy Marie had ever known and leaving her completely isolated. Ms. Larington then abandoned Lizzy Marie in the face of overwhelming evidence of her worsening delusions even ignoring Lizzy’s accusations against Ms. Larington herself.

* Failed to exercise ordinary precautions and standards of care required of her profession.

Our daughter was loving and kind with a good heart but struggled with social anxiety from a very young age. Everyone in the family understood this and loved her all the more for her strength, courage and good humor. I told her repeatedly she was the bravest person I knew.

Ms. Larington recklessly encouraged and nurtured the delusion that Lizzy had been sexually abused by me as a pre-verbal toddler. Lizzy Marie was a victim of these revolting lies spread to the family and community for FOUR years. Ms. Larington acted as a de facto therapist assigning herself this role against our wishes. Eventually, Lizzy accused [her mother], Ms. Larington herself and others of sexual abuse too. And yet, Ms. Larington continued to promote these lies. Lizzy Marie didn’t stand a chance against the terror and perversions Ms. Larington promoted and nurtured which destroyed her soul, her heart and ultimately her body.

Ms. Larington would not listen to my wife, me or our other daughters yet she presumed to interfere in all our lives ignoring her professional, moral and familial responsibilities.  Even after Lizzy’s deathbed confession, denying any abuse, Ms. Larington continued to lie about the abuse and about her contact with Lizzy.

Ms. Larington promoted the isolation from her family and did nothing to facilitate a reconciliation encouraging her to change her email address and other maneuvers to remove her from her family and increase her dependency upon Ms. Larington whose false promises of support evaporated as Lizzy’s needs grew greater. Ms. Larington chose to neglect rather than nurture, to injure rather than help and to harm rather than do good.

As Lizzy’s delusions grew worse, we desperately sought help through the courts (she was 23 years old) and finally succeeded in getting a court ordered involuntary admission to S— University Hospital Division of Psychiatry. Ms. Larington intervened at S– Hospital to forestall the help Lizzy Marie very clearly needed blaming Lizzy Marie’s affliction on sexual abuse.  The hospital records reflect the contradictory, confusing, unsubstantiated and unfounded accusations introduced by Ms. Larington which adversely impacted decision making on part of hospital staff who improperly failed to consider our daughter’s past history, or to consult her therapist of five years, her sisters or her aunts and uncles.

Every statement in the chart made by Ms. Larington was either a lie, a distortion or a complete fabrication and still today her lies and distortions persist in an attempt to cover her tracks. Ms. Larington refused to obtain relevant information from my wife and me, my other daughters, other aunts or uncles or Lizzy’s therapist of over 4 years before arriving at her false conclusions, despite efforts by my wife, me and our daughters to contact her.  I emailed Ms. Lizzy begging for help and reconsideration. I was fighting for my daughter’s life.

Lizzy was experiencing delusions with literally thousands of unhinged texts (she sent over 17,000 texts in her last month) and Facebook posts all of which we made available to the hospital staff. Ms. Larington never spoke to police, behavioral experts from wellness checks, my wife, me or other witnesses simply leaping to unfounded conclusions despite having received multiple delusional texts indicating Lizzy’s need for help. Lizzy Marie never received a diagnosis or the treatment she so desperately needed because of Ms. Larington’s intervention.

Instead, the hospital relied on Ms. Larington’s unfounded conclusions and, despite overwhelming evidence of Lizzy’s delusional episodes (see #2 – there are literally thousands more), would not grant the additional evaluation we fought to obtain. The hospital even went so far as to raise the bar for future involuntary admissions.

Lizzy needed the love of her family. She needed her real cherished childhood memories (see #6) which Ms. Larington destroyed torturing Lizzy with false horrors of abuse. She needed her mom, sisters and dad all of whom Ms. Larington stripped away. Lizzy was left with nothing. She was abandoned and all alone with no friends or family for FOUR years. She was afraid to let us back into her life because of Ms. Larington’s irresponsible lies and by that time Ms. Larington blithely washed her hands of her.

Lizzy was our daughter.  We knew her best and understood the danger she was facing.  All who loved Lizzy most knew she had never been abused by me. The idea is not only repulsive but impossible. Ms. Larington, with her phantasmic notions of repressed memory, managed to persuade the staff at SLUH to withhold the lifesaving additional evaluation.

Lizzy Marie’s memories were ravaged by Ms. Larington on the altar of her own disturbing life experiences including but not limited to marrying a known child pornography addict. In a classic case of projection, she accused me of that which she knowingly allowed into her own home.

Ms. Larington’s reckless and unprofessional conduct are a menace and she should never be allowed to practice any form of psychotherapy or counseling.

I have confined myself to available facts. Direct quotes are all verifiable. All my conclusions are based on the facts but remain my opinions.

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