Bizarre sex case gets 5 years in prison

As reported in the Stamford Advocate

A Bridgeport man who plead guilty to charges related to his impersonation of a doctor and conducting gynecological exams was sentenced Friday to 10 years, suspended after five years, according to the Connecticut Post's detailed reports. Barry Lichenthal also was ordered to make $6,000 in restitution to the state and register as a sex offender. Lichenthal, 59, has plead guilty to fourth-degree sexual assault, practicing medicine without a license, first-degree larceny, reckless endangerment and practicing pharmacy without a license. He was arrested in April 2003.

State officials suspended the medical license of Lichenthal's wife, Dr. Liane Leedom, a Trumbull psychiatrist. She was accused of misleading patients into believing that her husband was a licensed physician and allowing him to examine female patients. Leedom, 42, was arrested in January on charges of allowing Lichenthal to illegally run the clinic while she was gone. Her case is pending in Hartford Superior Court.

Leedom was medical director of Noah's Ark Foundation, a methadone treatment center. She also ran a mood disorder clinic.

(See also this report from WFSB)