Posted on 11/19/2013 11:36:25 AM PST by sunmars
Former Virginia governor candidate Creigh Deeds is fighting for his life after he was brutally stabbed by his own 24-year-old son, who then committed suicide - just one day after he was committed to a psychiatric ward.
Deeds, a state senator, is in critical condition at University of Virginia hospital after he was found in his home in rural Bath County. Deeds was stabbed multiple times in the head and torso and lost large amounts of blood.
The veteran Democratic state legislator's son Gus was found shot dead, as well.
Gus had been evaluated by psychiatrists at a mental hospital on Monday, but could not be committed because there were no beds available, according to reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Just a little taste of what the future will be if we don’t dump Obamacare.
You are correct to withhold judgment at this point. Some states, like Fla and the Baker Act, provide for State assistance PROVIDED the subject presents a foreseeable risk by enunciating their ideation that fits the criteria. Absent that, a person suffering a psychotic episode, perhaps a paranoid that does not want confinement, may easily slip through by mouthing the right words.
"inebriate homes" became a place where people who were found by a court to be incapable of managing their own affairs were committed for treatment, such as it was back then. As we became more "modern," some people could not get their freedom and others were "treated" with lobotomies and other forms of treatment that were nothing less than torture. So went the benefits therapeutic temperance for the treatment of transient mental illness.
Looks like an interesting read.
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