[tiamat]

Sorry.

I've worked with too many crazy people.

And I have a sister who is a full blown paranoid schizophrenic.

One of the worst things you can do for a patient or society is to absolve them from responsability.

Too many of them slide with bad behavior because they know they can.

Kick her butt. Hard.

[bonfire]

AMen to that! I have a bro-in-law who disapears every few years. The whole family goes berserk, APB's go out, etc. etc. He always ends up back at his mom's with no explanation. No one EVER expects one. He's got them all snookered, IMO.

[Cold Heat]

This issue is complicated and no person fit's every mold.

The justice system will likely get this right.

If she deserves it, she should be punished too the degree that she is complicit in the crime of false reporting.

We, as a society must take illness into account, but not to excuse everything and everybody.

That would be way too lenient and stupid. And that is not what I was suggesting.