I pray that this boy will get the help he needs instead of being treated like a criminal. Today I am bringing you cases of people with mental illness who committed murder and were not taken to jail but were committed to psychiatric institutions instead.
Andrea Yates who drowned her 5 young children in a bath tub.
John Hinkley Jr attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan
Daniel Cantrell who stabbed his dad to death
Oliver Machada who decapitated his mother
Pianist who killed her 2 daughters
Mother who drove her kids into the ocean
that doesnt mean they are free , they will never see the light of day
But is he of unsound mind ?
Criminal culpability requires only two elements to be established mens rea (state of mind) and actus reus (the action)
in our case, the accused premeditated the murders (malice aforethought), bought the knives, attempted to
lure the girlfriend to indulge in drugs in order to have an alibi. does this sound like is a person who is of unsound mind and didn’t understand what he was about to do?
To prove insanity the conditions set out in M’Naghten case must be realized;
- Defendant was incapable of knowing what they were doing at the time committing offense
2.The second test is to determine whether the defendant knew that his actions were wrong
By buying spare clothes, concealing the murder weapons, burning one of the phones, without a shadow of a doubt, the MF was fully aware of what he had done and therefore can’t raise insanity as defense
The only case in which he can be detained at mental facility is if he is unable to raise a defense due to mental disability: Cannot understand proceedings (which is not the case since he has cooperated with authorities and led them to the murder weapons and revealed a lot of other information)
So, this kid is getting maximum imprisonment na kama tungekuwa US he would have been executed just like lisa Montomery who strangled an expectant mother to death, cut her womb open and kidnapped the child and tried to pass her as her own luckily she survived she is now 16.
Lisa Montgomery was executed last week by lethal injection
Premeditation is not an issue when a person is acting from a false belief. Schizophrenic people usually have paranoia that somebody is out to get them.
To this kid, his family wanted to get rid of him and they would not give him peace until he was dead. So scared was he that he declined eating any food or beverages prepared by his mother. In December he reported his mother and his family as being Satanic and trying to be witch him, poison him and basically get rid of him.
The fact that he reported this to the police and also that he went to church to pray before embarking on his mission shows that he felt like he had no choice if he wanted peace and to stay alive.
If today I believe that you want to kill me and I go buy the weapons and even destroy or conceal evidence that doesn’t negate the fact that I acted based on a false reality that due to mental illness I believed to be true. All the schizophreniac cases are evaluated based on the person’s belief system and perception of reality.
The motive is what constitutes of the men’s rea or malice afore thought. His motive was to eliminate people he believes wanted to kill him. Which is a motive based on false belief and delusional thinking. That means that the motive was coming from a vantage of insanity. I have to kill you or else you will kill me.
There is a prison for the Criminally Insane. Do your research.
I only know of condemned block. Where is it? In Mathare?