GET INVOLVED Indiana Statehouse Senate Committees Schedule Wednesday, Jan. 27 8 a.m. – Health and Provider Services 9 a.m. – Judiciary 9 a.m. – Pension and Labor 1:30 p.m. – Education and Career Development 1:30 p.m. – Local Government 1:30 p.m. – Public Policy 4 p.m. – Rules and Legislative Procedure Thursday, Jan. 28 9 a.m. – Appropriations 1:30 p.m. Full Senate session
House Committees Wednesday, Jan. 27 8:30 a.m. – Family, Children and Human Affairs 9 a.m. – Public Policy 10 a.m. – Roads and Transportation 10:30 a.m. Environmental Affairs 1:30 p.m. – Courts and Criminal Code 1:30 p.m. – Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications 1:30 p.m. Ways and Means 3:30 p.m. Elections and Apportionment 3:30 p.m. – Financial Institutions Thursday, Jan. 28 8 a.m. – Public Policy 8:30 a.m. – Agriculture and Rural Development 10 a.m. – Full House session All bills must pass out of committee by Thursday to remain active.
THOUGHT BITE ARCHIVE Time machine. Indiana now has a state Senate candidate whose “Christian-RIght” platform includes the primitive and demonstrably un-Christian penalty of “public flogging,” but he says he uses no violence to discipline his children. Fits the neocon pattern: War for others, but no draft to even out the pain. (Week of May 17-24, 2006) — ANDY JACOBS JR.
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tion. He told me to take my pants down and he played with my genitals for a Zackheim had hopes of leaving the few seconds. He told me to pull up my U.S. after being acquitted on charges of pants and we talked on the way back practicing medicine without a license to the unit. No nurse, no parents (were and sexual battery in Indiana in 2006. He present). Just him and I.” Not a single proposed a bid for a group home with girl reported receiving a physical from Guam’s Department of Mental Health. In Zackheim. an interview with a Guam news broadZackheim denied the claims, but said cast, Zackheim said that his experience he did physical assessments of the boys with troubled teens along with raising in the presence of a nurse after a youth his stepson, Anthony Godby Johnson, who had lived there fell ill and died durhave been successful. “He certainly has ing 2002. Zackheim was charged with been a wonderful guide to what can practicing medicine without a license be done if the right things happen,” he and three misdemeanor charges of described. “He’s an amazing kid. But battery for fondling the genitals of his he’s not a kid. He’s twenty-seven years clients. He was acquitted of all charges old.” In a following interview with KUAM in 2006. News, Zackheim states that Anthony Zackheim found himself in court Johnson is 30 years old. When KUAM again, facing numerous federal charges pressed Zackheim on the inconsistencies of health care fraud after his acquitof his statements, he diverted questions tal in 2006. It was about his relationship with Anthony 2009 and President Godby Johnson and his trial for mediand CEO of New cal fraud and molestation in Indiana. Horizons Youth “While in a position of trust, Dr. Zackheim stated that he thought it was Ministries Charles best to refrain from answering these Zackheim used his patients – all of whom Redwine pleaded in questions until the bid was announced. a letter to a federal were minors – for financial gain.” Zackheim had claimed a role in raising judge on behalf of Tony, forgetting Vicki’s claim that she left the psychologist — U.S. ATTORNEY DAVID CAPP him with a caretaker before moving to that contractually Illinois. Supposedly born in 1978, Tony worked for him. ”I would have been 20 years old by the am saddened to see time Marc Zackheim married Vicki — this travesty of inyears of my administration.” well beyond the teen years during which justice from trusted staff who apparently Tim Blossom wrote, “I have known Zackheim had inadvertently claimed he did not have the same heart for youth (Zackheim) for well over 20 years. My raised him. this man has.” father, Rev. Gordon C. Blossom, the The aforementioned trial and acquittal Zackheim played a dubious role in founder of New Horizons Youth Miniscame from the examination of stateadmitting and treating students at New tries, recognized his strength of characments from New Horizons alumni and a Horizons. Zackheim counseled students ter and devotion to children in need of 2004 Indiana State Police investigation. at New Horizons, played a significant his special abilities.” Blossom looked up Several of the boys from the Plymouth role in admittance and escorted nuto Zackheim as well, writing, “Marc was facility alleged that Zackheim had them merous children to Escuela Caribe. An my professional mentor and equal.” remove clothes and touched their genialumnus wrote Zackheim “would come In the second trial, Zackheim was talia while performing examinations. down to interview people and take large convicted of health care fraud and A 1995 account of a New Horizons’ groups back with him. Then waves of sentenced to federal prison. However alumnus states that while at the Koala new students would show up. He would Zackheim died of a heart attack before Center in Plymouth, Zackheim “fondled take at first about two to three then serving his sentence. A few months later, my genitals in a dark office when I was once he took like six or seven.” Charles the Indiana Department of Child Ser13 years old. We went off of the unit to an Redwine documented his relationship vices revoked New Horizons’ license. office down the hall and talked for a few between Zackheim in a letter given to In a memorandum U.S. Attorney minutes. He asked me about girls and if a federal judge. “I have professionally David Capp wrote, “While in a posiI had any homosexual experiences while known Marc for over twenty years. He tion of trust, Dr. Zackheim used his at Indiana Boys’ School. He told me he visited our campus in the Dominican Re- patients – all of whom were minors – for needed to perform a physical examinapublic where I was director and immedifinancial gain. Dr. Zackheim fabricated ately became our unpaid various diagnoses and attached these consultant, visiting our false diagnoses to the medical records campus regularly. He was of his juvenile patients. Dr. Zackheim’s “He told me he needed to perform a therapeutically involved fraudulent designs placed these young with our difficult-to-man- individuals in danger of several future physical examination. He told me to age and disordered youth. harmful consequences due to inaccurate Marc’s vast training and patient medical records.” n take my pants down and he played insight was invaluable to with my genitals for a few seconds.” me personally in the early
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