Less than a week before **REDACTED** was charged with suffocating her two young children, police had escorted her to a hospital for an emergency psychiatric evaluation. She had threatened to kill herself and **REDACTED**, her 3-year-old daughter, authorities said Monday.
…On Sunday, authorities received a call about 2:15 from the children’s maternal grandmother, **REDACTED**, that **REDACTED** were not breathing, charging documents say.
“Investigators learned from **REDACTED** that **REDACTED** . . . woke her up and ultimately told her that she killed her children,” according to court records. “v then found the children with plastic bags and duct tape around their faces and heads.”
Sorry for all the redacted names, but I just can’t publish all the personal details, you’ll have to read the report. Now given our current mental health system, this woman would not have been barred from buying a gun because non court-ordered mental health care is private medical information. I prefer this, as you often hear of mental-health practitioners giving bad diagnoses, or pushing their personal agenda (one of the better examples is what was done to homosexuals by the mental health system not long ago, or the ever evolving paradigm that is “Autism”), so the fact that somebody getting rights stripped from them needs to be in front of an impartial judge, and have legal representation. It’s hardly perfect, but it’s better than scrapping the whole thing for some other method IMHO.
Still even if she was barred from owning firearms by her first evaluation, what good would it have done? Of course the antis don’t care, because only “Gun Deaths” count, so only people with mental issues SHOOTING people is relevant for discussion.
