The patient was confiding in a therapist about his cocaine addiction when he hinted he also had a problem with pornography. Would the therapist have to report him to authorities, he nervously asked.
Graeme Daniels, a Walnut Creek-based psychotherapist, said he explained that a new law required him to call police if he learned a client had viewed child pornography.
The patient, a father of two in his 40s, became flustered and would not give details about the pornography, Daniels said. Months after the exchange, the man had yet to return to see Daniels.