Psychologist on trial sex charges

From the Eagle Times in New Hampshire

Donald Sanborn III, a local psychologist, has plead not guilty to a variety of sex abuse charges. Sanborn was arrested for lewd and lascivious conduct and exploitation of a vulnerable adult-sexual abuse.

Sanborn has a practice in his home. Under his conditions of release Sanborn can still practice, but not with any female patients or younger patients. He was barred from having contact with the person involved.

According to Bellows Falls detective Jennifer Carroll's affidavit, the victim reported to attorney Robert Fisher on June 13, 2007 that Sanborn had been doing "naughty things" during her psychologist sessions for the last three to four months. This claim was then reported to the police.

On Nov. 13, Carroll met with the victim at the police department. The victim's husband told Carroll she had Disassociate Identity Disorder and Agoraphobia, a fear of being in crowds or open areas. Therefore the victim will act like a 5-year-old when she is "threatened," the affidavit states.

The husband told Sanborn of this disorders and topics that put the victim into a "defensive mode." Sanborn often spoke of these topics, the affidavit states.

The woman started seeing Sanborn in 2003 to help with her disorders, in November 2006 Sanborn allegedly told the victim's husband to let the woman come to therapy along.

He did for approximately six to seven months.

On June 22, 2007 the victim's husband asked his wife why socks were, "balled up in the back of the drawer where they should not have been," the affidavit said. The victim said the socks were the one's "dirtied by Dr. Sanborn."

The victim's husband wrapped the socks in newspaper and took them to the lawyer's office.

On Oct. 29, Carroll told the package and sent to the Vermont Forensic Laboratory for testing. On Nov. 26, the lab report stated one of the socks was positive for "PSA, a protein found in high concentration in seminal fluid," the affidavit says. The other sock had a positive presumptive test for seminal fluid.

On Dec. 18, Carroll was granted a order to collect a swab sample from Sanborn. He submitted swabs on Dec. 26.

A lab report on Jan. 9, 2008 said the primarily reportable types of sperm matched.

Sanborn is scheduled for on April 21.