This one in Canada. All because agencies tasked with defending the welfare of children can’t be bothered to check the legitimacy of professional degrees.
From the Toronto Star:
… [Gregory] Carter has been charged by Durham Regional Police with fraud, perjury and obstruction of justice…
Andrea Maenza, a spokesperson for Durham [Children’s Aid Society], says that the agency ended its relationship with Carter in early 2009 when it learned that “he did his Ph.D. but the school was bogus.” [Weird formulation. Should be “He didn’t do his PhD. because the school is bogus.”]
Carter says he has a doctorate from Pacific Western University, which was investigated by the U.S. government in 2004 and found to be a diploma mill.
“We accepted his community reputation. In retrospect, we should have questioned it,” Maenza says, noting that Carter was called a “doctor” by lawyers and judges and relied upon in cases as an expert witness. [Everybody called him a doctor. That was good enough for us.]
He did more than 300 assessments for the agency, which has already conducted a preliminary review into them…
Meanwhile, the case against Steven Feldman (scroll down) proceeds.
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:47AM
Wise parents should simply name their kids “Doctor” and so avoid even paying diploma mill fees.