Sacramento-area counselor sentenced for stalking, harassment of former patient

(FOX40.COM) — A Sacramento-area counselor was sentenced to nearly 10 years in state prison on Wednesday for charges including stalking and false imprisonment of a former patient, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office.

The agency said Bridget Adams attempted romantic advances on her former patient sometime in 2022, resulting in the victim reporting Adams to her credentialing agencies.

After the victim reported Adams, she began sending harassing texts, making phone calls, following the victim in her car and posting his personal information online, the DA said.

The district attorney’s office said that Adams then impersonated an attorney and investigators in an attempt to have the victim drop their complaint.

At the same time, Adams filed a temporary restraining order against the victim, where she presented threatening emails that she claimed were sent by the victim.

After getting the restraining order, Adams submitted false violations and appeared in court to pursue the retraining order under penalty of perjury, the DA said.

The hearings resulted in the victim being arrested and held in jail on felony charges. A further investigation found that Adams had doctored and sent the emails herself.

The victim was released from jail and all charges against him were dropped after further investigation.

When the victim was released from jail, Adams continued harassing him through stalking, filing false reports and making threats against his family even after being served an order to prohibit her actions, the DA said.

After Adams’s arrest, she told a family member to forge letters impersonating the victim and a witness, and she planned to use these at a hearing so that the two people would not be able to testify at a trial, the DA said.

Adams was sentenced to 9 years and 4 months in state prison.

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