Ex-Va. Tech official: Cho’s files removed by mistake

[Blue_Tires]

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

The former Virginia Tech official who had key records for the investigation into the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history says he hadn't realized he'd taken them.

Robert Miller, former director of the university's counseling center, said yesterday that he inadvertently packed Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho's mental-health records with his own personal documents when he left the center in February 2006.

That was 14 months before Cho killed 32 students and teachers at Tech on April 16, 2007. It was two months after a judge ordered Cho to receive mental-health care at the counseling center.

Miller, in a written statement released by his lawyer, did not say why Cho's records were in his office.

Another member of the counseling center staff saw Cho the one time he came to the center after a judge committed him to its care. Mental-health treatment records are supposed to be stored securely.

Miller also did not say why he had other counseling center treatment records at his home.

Miller said he opened the box containing the Cho records for the first time when looking for documents that might be relevant in lawsuits filed by families of two of the students who died that day. The suits name him among the officials alleged to have been negligent in monitoring and treating Cho.

Read more: http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/state_regional_govtpolitics/article/TECH24_20090723-222607/281859/

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yeah, whatever...

after a costly, emergency 12th-hour marathon session with his lawyer, this is the evidently the best bullshit story he can come up with and he'll stick to it as long as he can...I still want to know the contents of the other files he 'accidentally' stole (ERRR - "misplaced")...

Virginia Tech already had to pay a mint in out-of-court settlements for victims' families, and a lot of administrators and officials quietly fell on their swords in the following months...A stunt like this could be the start of a biblical-size lawsuit....

[Blue_Tires]

1. kick

[dgibby]

2. Sounds like Miller has a lot of explaining to do. n/t

[drumwolf]

3. I'm disgusted by this, but not particularly surprised.

Based on my own personal interaction with the mental health system in the past, it seems like more than a few of the so-called "professionals" in that field are incompetent fuckups.