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Dr. Isaac Waxman is an extremely unethical and controversial child therapist taking on extremely endangered and troubled kids as patients.

History[]

Waxman's methods included prescribing vitamins and meditation instead of psychiatric medicine, scolding and even hitting parents he found irresponsible, and having kids sleep overnight in his office to avoid their problematic homes. His patients always called him by his first name to maintain trust.

After Waxman was shot dead in his office, it was revealed that his wife Katherine killed him. He repeatedly raped her when she was a patient, then forced her to marry him and have children with him, all under threats of hospital commitments, sabotaging her health and safety, and gaining custody of their kids. Waxman made tapes and wrote journals about his crimes under the alias of Meredith, the name of a city the two would "vacation", and Katherine's daughter Emma found a tape. Katherine snapped when she herself listened to it, in complete denial the tapes were about her and fearing another patient was a victim, and she killed Waxman with a gun he confiscated from another patient.

Katherine argued self-defense and insanity while representing herself in court, but after she was confronted with the truth about the tapes, she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. (L&O: "Betrayal")

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