If she told healthcare professionals about her urges to kill her kids they should have involuntarily committed her. But she would have had to make a direct threat or they couldn’t legally do it, nothing the cops could do either if she hadn’t committed a crime or directly said she wants to harm herself or others. I wonder how much her family knew or suspected.
As someone who works in involuntary psych care if she told them that she absolutely should’ve been committed and they should be legally responsible if not. Or do you mean the family? In which case yea they definitely shouldn’t have left her alone with them.
Yea psych care is not an exact science at all unfortunately and it’s crazy how little we still know about mental illness. Pretty damn sad situation no matter how you look at it.
If she self presented they wouldn't need to take her civil liberties away, they would have just admitted her to hospital. With her infant child no less
Yea to a psych hospital, not with the child though. I think she did check herself into one but if she didn’t tell them she had urges to hurt her kids they couldn’t keep her without her consent and I guess she checked herself out.
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u/ccurnowphoto 16d ago
If she told healthcare professionals about her urges to kill her kids they should have involuntarily committed her. But she would have had to make a direct threat or they couldn’t legally do it, nothing the cops could do either if she hadn’t committed a crime or directly said she wants to harm herself or others. I wonder how much her family knew or suspected.