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From: abelard3@abelard.org
On Thu, 4 May 2017 06:04:39 -0400, burfordTjustice
wrote:
>Execute the drug using scum bitch...
>
>BRISBANE, Australia – A mother who stabbed to death her seven children and a
niece in northern Australia in 2014 will not stand trial for murder because
she was suffering cannabis-induced schizophrenia when she lost control,
according to a court
judgment released Thursday.
>
>Raina Thaiday stabbed herself 35 times after killing the children, aged 2 to
14 years, at her home in Cairns on Dec. 19, a month after her delusions began.
>
>The Queensland state Mental Health Court ruled a month ago that Thaiday, then
37, had been of "unsound mind" when the children were slain. State law kept
the ruling from being made public until Thursday.
>
>She will be held indefinitely in a high-security ward of a psychiatric
hospital in the state capital Brisbane and will not be allowed to leave the
hospital grounds unescorted.
>
>Thaiday, also known as Mersane Warria, had been smoking up to 20 cones of
marijuana a day when she developed severe schizophrenia in late 2014, the
court heard.
>
>Justice Jean Dalton said there was convincing evidence that Thaiday suffered
a psychotic episode and had no capacity to control or understand her actions.
>
>"Her children were the things that had given her the most happiness in life,"
Dalton said.
>
>Thaiday remained psychotic until July 2015 and has had two relapses, once at
the two-year anniversary of the deaths, and has expressed a desire to kill her
fellow patients, the court heard.
>
>Several psychiatrists agreed her lifelong abuse of cannabis triggered her
schizophrenia.
>
>The house where the children died was demolished and replaced with eight
trees in their honor
just be thankful that cannabis is completely safe
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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