XPost: alt.religion.scientology, de.soc.weltanschauung.scientology   
   From: jimchi7070@yahoo.com   
      
   In article , Angela Gupta says...   
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   >In article <1163385543.059224.83740@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Barbara   
      
   Hang these psychs for the crimes they commit.   
      
   JimCHI   
   >Schwarz says...   
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   >>Angela Gupta wrote:   
   >>> From Macleansdotca [quote] Nine women with mental disabilities who were   
   >>>sterilized at a psychiatric hospital in British Columbia will share a   
   $450,000   
   >>> settlement reached with the provincial government.   
   >>>The women were sterilized while they were patients at the Riverview   
   Psychiatric   
   >>>Hospital in nearby Coquitlam between 1940 and 1968. British Columbia's   
   public   
   >>> guardian said in a statement Wednesday that the settlements range between   
   >>> $25,000 and $100,000, plus costs.   
   >>>The case has been before the courts since 2001, when 18 lawsuits were filed   
   on   
   >>> their behalf by the Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia. One of   
   >>> those suits involved a man who had been sterilized at the hospital,   
   formerly   
   >>> known as Essondale Provincial Mental Hospital.   
   >>>The plaintiffs, who are all elderly women, were sterilized as a form of   
   birth   
   >>> control.   
   >>>[Public Guardian and Trustee] Jay Chalke said about 200 women were   
   sterilized in   
   >>> British Columbia.   
   >>>At the time, the process was legal under the Sexual Sterilization Act of   
   1933   
   >>> and its successor legislation, which was abolished in 1973.   
   >>>The case was the first of its kind in B.C., although women sterilized in   
   Alberta   
   >>>mental hospitals have successfully sued the Alberta government for   
   compensation.   
   >>> Oppal said it is possible that more lawsuits could be filed.   
   >>>The lawsuit in B.C. alleged the sterilizations were done without any   
   scientific   
   >>> evidence supporting the belief that children of the patients would inherit   
   >>>serious mental disabilities. It also alleged the sterilizations were a   
   violation   
   >>> of each patient's sexual privacy and were considered an assault.   
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   >>Good that she won. But I think she would have deserved a lot more.   
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   >>   
   >>Barbara Schwarz   
   >   
   >I totally agree.  They should have gotten much, much more.  Although, I don't   
   >know how any amount of money could compensate these poor women for the   
   brutality   
   >they suffered at the hands of psychiatrists.   
   >Angela   
   >>--   
   >>   
   >>Eugenics promoter and American enemy Tilman Hausherr and habitual,   
   >>sexual harasser, forger and habitual offender Korey Jerome Kruse   
   >>(Vivaldi, Simaktu and other sockpuppets) scribbled a defamatory   
   >>misleading Wikipedia article about me. Kruse just came out of jail.   
   >>http://www.alarmgermany.org/tilman.htm   
   >>   
   >>Another lying abuser who stalks me from thread to thread is Peat   
   >>Stapleton (Eru Avatar), alsimak_three @ yahoo.com, from Redding,   
   >>California, a dead beat with several social security numbers, self   
   >>confessed pimp and child rapist, and former inmate with a psychiatric   
   >>history, who runs astrology scans.   
   >>   
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