A second woman has filed a lawsuit against Delnor-Community Hospital claiming a former psychologist there subjected her to witchcraft under the guise of therapy.The lawsuits contend the Geneva-based hospital did nothing to rein in the unorthodox treatments. Neither lawsuit seeks money from the accused psychologist, Letitia Libman of St. Charles, because the former patients fear retribution, said their attorney, Richard Stavins of Chicago.
Deanna Whetstine, formerly of St. Charles, filed a lawsuit in Kane County Monday asking for more than $50,000 because she was exposed to witchcraft, threats and sexual advances at the St. Charles campus of the hospital from July 2002 to December 2004, according to the suit.
According to the lawsuit, Whetstine went to Libman for treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, a neurological syndrome characterized by disabling pain.
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