Danielle Roberts, 40, has had her medical license revoked by the New York State Department of Health after branding at least 17 women during her time in Nxivm
The doctor who worked for NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere and branded at least 17 women without anesthesia has been stripped of her medical license.
Danielle Roberts, 40, formerly of Halfmoon, New York near Albany, lost her medical license after the New York State Department of Health revoked it in a 3-0 decision on Friday.
In agreement with the Board of Professional Medical Conduct, the Health Department found that Roberts engaged in 12 forms of misconduct and feared future patients would be branded, Albany's Times Union reported.
Roberts sn't the first to be reprimanded for her involvement in NXIVM, a so-call 'self-help' that engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor and racketeering.
Leader Keith Raniere, 61, was sentenced to 120 years in prison and high up member and former actress Allison Mack, 39, was sentenced to three years prison for sex trafficking, racketeering, and forced labor. Nancy Salzman received three and a half years.
The doctor, who does not face prison time, was allegedly defiant and evasive as she testified before the health committee, according to documents.
The Health Department reported she refused to disclose her involvement in the group, the whereabouts of the branding videos, and who was in the room while she did the branding.
The department also expressed that they were concerned by her 'distorted reality.'
'[Roberts] denies being brainwashed, yet she expressed no real remorse, which represented to the hearing committee her distorted reality and the very real concern that others remain vulnerable to her future brandings,' the decision stated.
Keith Raniere, 61, was the leader of Nxivm, a so-call self-help group, in Albany, New York
Roberts branded Nxivm leader Keith Raniere's initials into the women with a cauterizing machine pen in a procedure that took 20 to 45 minutes to complete. The women were often naked and held down by other nude members while the procedure took place in Robert's home
The department found she had committed misconduct that included 'willfully abusing a patient, practicing medicine with gross negligence, moral unfitness, services not authorized by the patient and failing to use appropriate infection control practices,' the decision stated.
The former doctor allegedly branded the women inside her home with a cauterizing machine pen, burning the leader Keith Raniere's initials into their pelvic areas without anesthesia.
An unidentified victim told the Health Department it felt like 'an acute fire in the most sensitive part of my body,' while another described it as 'incredibly painful.'
Roberts told NBC Dateline that the women did not come to her for the brandings because she was a doctor.
Roberts used a cauterizing pen (pictured) to brand the initials into the women's pelvic area, which one woman described it felt like 'an acute fire'
'These women didn’t come to me because they thought I was a doctor,' she said in February.
"They had no idea who the branding technician was going to be, you know? There was no patient-physician relationship.'
The Nxivm doctor also claimed the women 'wanted it' and that they were 'laughing' while in the room with her while it happened.
Sarah Edmondson, who was branded by Roberts, recalled to The New York Times she was told she would be given a tattoo as a part of initiation.
She and the other women were instructed to bring nude images of themselves as collateral and among entering Roberts home, they were told to undress as they gathered around a
