In a civil lawsuit filed 15 years ago and just now reaching a jury, Madison native Dr. Charles Johnson and his wife, Karen, allege therapists who treated their daughter Charlotte committed professional negligence by suggesting and encouraging implausible childhood memories, including that her father raped her, that her mother tried to drown her and that the family was involved in cults and infanticide. Dr. Johnson, a physician, is a former UW-Madison faculty member who also served as a hospital administrator in St. Louis, Smoler said.
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