03-18-2015, 02:56 PM
(02-12-2014, 05:57 PM)aussiefriend Wrote:(02-12-2014, 02:14 PM)BlueTiki Wrote:(02-02-2014, 11:30 AM)Cynical Ninja Wrote: The only demons and devils are the people who commit these awful crimes.
That is why we should euthanize the mentally ill.
I don't think these people are genuinely mentally ill. I think it's a cop out. The mentally ill I have seen are normally vulnerable and harmless. Although there are violent mentally ill people they are generally not high functioning members of society.
I seriously don't understand how anybody, especially somebody who's studied and worked in mental health, can view this the way you do, aussie. That's not a jab, I really don't understand.
IMO, many of the perpetrators covered in this thread are mentally ill individuals; mentally ill individuals functioning in a society that refuses to lock them up and treat them against their will until it's too late.
Yeah, some of them are bullshitters looking for a cop out, I agree. But, most should have been confined to in-patient treatment given their behaviors, for their own well-being and for the safety of those around them.
This is a very sad case of a mother who showed signs of severe post-partem depression and reported that demons were talking to her. She was briefly hospitalized for psychiatric problems and released. Her 3-month-old daughter was removed from her custody and given to the baby's aunt.
Unfortunately, the aunt let the mother move in with her and the baby, against court orders.
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Well, the mother, ^ Deasia Watkins, 20, allegedly beheaded her three-month-old daughter, Janiyah, at the home in Hamilton County, Ohio on Monday.
A five-year-old child who was at the house to catch a school bus found the baby's body and ran outside to tell a male relative. The man woke up the aunt and she called police.
RIP Janiyah Watkins. Mom will have no problem using a mental impairment defense, IMO. Nor should she, based on what's known now. She should be confined to a mental facility (probably for life). Other than a disturbing the peace charge, Deasia Watkins had no criminal record.
Story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...rders.html