Opinion ID: 213299
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Heading: Ilgen’s Mental Evaluations

Text: Ilgen began therapy with Craig David Lounsbrough, a licensed professional counselor, in July 2008. Lounsbrough diagnosed Ilgen with anxiety and depression. He opined: [F]rom a clinical perspective[,] incarceration would clearly not appear in the patient’s best interest and would likely not provide [him] the appropriate resources that he appears to require in order to deal with the above listed diagnostic issues. Additionally, such a course of action would likely not serve society and the larger public as the testing data indicates that the patient does not present as a threat nor do his diagnostic issues suggest the likelihood of any future threat. Finally, given the severity of the patient’s diagnostic issues, incarceration will likely result in exacerbation of the patient’s depression and anxiety, potentially creating major mental health issues for the patient. (R. Vol. 1 at 76.) In May 2009, Ilgen underwent a psychiatric evaluation conducted by Dr. Karen Fukutaki. Ilgen told Fukutaki he began using Limewire to download music but typed “adult porn” into the search engine because he was “just curious.” (R. Vol. I at 65.) He said that led to him downloading child and adult pornography but “[i]t was [a] game to see if I could download more than someone else . . . .” (Id.) When asked whether he viewed the child pornography, he said he saw only one or two images. He said the images disturbed him and he was outraged that anyone could have produced such material. He denied being sexually stimulated by the child pornography and knowing it was illegal to download and share child pornography. Noting that these statements conflicted with his previous statements to the agents, Fukutaki reported: “[I]t . . . appears -5- he minimized his behavior in his report to me.” (Id. at 71.) In the end, Fukutaki diagnosed Ilgen with depression which, combined with Ilgen’s low self-esteem and social isolation, “probably contributed to his making a poor choice to download child pornography.” (Id.) She said he would benefit from treatment. While Lounsbrough had opined that Ilgen was not a threat to the public or predisposed to harming children, the government was concerned with this opinion because Lounsbrough was not an evaluator approved by the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) and had not utilized testing designed to evaluate sexual deviancy. Therefore, the government filed a motion requesting Ilgen be ordered to undergo a sex offense-specific evaluation by an SOMB-approved evaluator. The court granted the motion. Ilgen underwent that evaluation with John Davis, who heard a similar story as that told to Fukutaki. When asked to explain the contradictory statements he made to the agents, Ilgen claimed he had told them he had viewed and subscribed to adult pornography websites. He also denied ever masturbating while viewing child pornography. Nevertheless, he was sorry for downloading child pornography and making it available to others. He did not believe he needed treatment in relation to his offense and claimed he would never do it again. After performing a number of tests, Davis determined Ilgen’s risk of sexual reoffense was “low to low moderate.” (R. Vol. 5 at 116.) But the risk assessment was made “without objective verification of self-reported sexual history information . . . .” (Id. at 114.) -6-