Former Cook Counseling Center director Robert Miller will not face criminal charges for removing Seung-Hui Cho's mental health records from the center.
A press release from Montgomery County commonwealth's attorney Brad Finch said the Virginia State Police concluded its investigation, and concluded that Miller "does not appear to have acted with criminal intent in removing the records."
Miller has said in legal statements that he accidentally removed the documents when he was cleaning out his office between Feb. 27-March 9, 2006.
He found the documents at his home while looking for papers that would be relevant in a civil suit filed by the families of April 16 victims Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde.
Miller, who is a defendant in the suit, returned the files to the center in July. He worked in Virginia Tech's human resources department until 2008 following his departure from the center.
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To me, it clearly shows that they are all in this cover up together. It doesn't matter what Miller's intention was, the fact is that he broke the law and he should be punished accordingly.
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I agree, Miller had no reason to take those records and it's very suspicious that the only records he just happened to accidentally take were Cho's. Now we can never even know if the records were altered in any way. Miller should face some sort of jail time for his action and this stinks of a high profile cover up.
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Shouldn't we question whether Miller should be allowed to keep his license as a practicing psychologist? In his resume (http://collegiatetimes.com/blogs/news/files/2009/07/miller-resume.pdf), he articulates that he is a subject matter expert in HIPAA record keeping practices, clinic management and taught Professionalism and Medical Ethics in 2009. If a surgeon "forgot" and left a piece of gauze in a patient's chest cavity, that would be grounds for a malpractice suit and investigation by the Board of Medicine. Cho's file didn't just mysteriously make its way to Miller's desk. It would have been deliberately pulled by Miller himself or someone at CCC.
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