Violent Criminal Sentenced For Homicide of Caregiver

[From article]
After they took Deshawn Chappell back to Bridgewater yesterday, Stephanie Moulton’s mother, Kimberly Flynn, said she blamed both the schizophrenic patient who stabbed her daughter to death and the operators of the group home who should have warned her daughter about the dangers she was facing.
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“These poor people lost their daughter,” [Daniel] Solomon said, “and my client’s mother who fought for years for services for her son, basically lost her son as well. And the fact of the matter is since the commonwealth has deinstitutionalized people like Deshawn, this is the type of stuff that’s been happening. You have people like this who have not been properly housed.”

There are two unrecognized issues here. One is the psychiatric industry promotes merging mental illness and crime. It allows the drug industry to increase their client base with a captive population. This young man was a known violent offender. He belonged in jail, mentally ill or not. Too many criminals are declared mentally and used as subjects for treatment rather than punishment. 

The second issue is these heinous events are exploited by the drug and psychiatric industry to promote taxpayer funding of more treatment and building new hospitals. Criminal belong in  jail. Troubled persons need care and compassion not drugs. This is one more example of how the human services industrial complex (MA State Rep. Marie Parente's term) promotes its economic intertest above the interests of the humans for which taxpayer money is appropriated. 


http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/peter_gelzinis/2013/10/gelzinis_families_pay_price_for_mental_health_system

Gelzinis: Families pay price for mental health system failures
Wednesday, October 29, 2013
By: Peter Gelzinis
Boston Herald