Shocking if you’ve never met a psych major. Most of them I’ve met tended to specialize in fields that are “meaningful” to them. From KXMC.com:

State Hospital Superintendent Alex Schweitzer says officials are trying to quickly find a replacement for a psychologist who resigned after admitting to subscribing to child pornography Web sites.

Schweitzer says it’s not an easy task, because the position is so specialized. He says the search began immediately after Joseph Belanger’s resignation was accepted November 8.

Belanger had examined sex offenders over the past decade to determine their potential danger to the public.

Perverted Primates nutshells this story nicely:

Joseph Belanger used to work at the state hospital’s sex offender unit, employed merely to give society a false sense of hope that the pedophiles the state releases aren’t really that big of a threat anymore. He used to work there. Currently, he’s not working there. And the state is desperate to find someone else to fill this waste of tax payer dollars position.

And while I roll my eyes at this insanity, I have to point on the irony that Belanger only resigned his job cause he…

” admitted to subscribing to child pornography Web sites.”

If this short eyed quack didn’t have some sort of case against him he’d still be deciding which violent pedophiles should be released into society. No doubt a decision he made by taking into account how much child porn the offender could hook him up with.

Quackery aside, if th government can’t even screen out perverts from working in these sensitive positions, how can we trust the treatment programs to be effective?