Hallo alle zusammen,
darüber bin ich gerade gestolpert...kranke welt.
ziemlich heftig dabei finde ich auch noch die tatsache, dass sie ihrem kind trauben, die mit drogen angereichert waren, zu essen gab!
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10486519%255E1702,00.html------------------
Mentally ill mum not guilty of murder
By Stuart Walsh
August 18, 2004
A MOTHER who smothered her two-year-old son after a voice told her he was Jack the Ripper was found not guilty of murder today on the grounds of mental impairment.
Adele Stuart, 38, is being held at the Thomas Embling secure psychiatric hospital.
Supreme Court judge Justice Bernard Bongiorno will formally make a supervision order governing her continued detention on a date to be fixed.
Stuart, a paranoid schizophrenic, suffocated the boy, Shaun Clancy, after feeding him her own anti-psychotic drug hidden in grapes, the trial heard.
Crown prosecutor Mark Gamble had asked the jury to accept Stuart's plea of not guilty of murder due to mental impairment.
He said that police, alerted by a neighbour, found Shaun's naked body on the front doorstep of Stuart's flat in Wingate Avenue, Ascot Vale, on March 20, 2002.
Stuart was standing outside and was "clearly psychiatrically unwell".
Shaun, who died a month short of his third birthday, had bruises to his face and mouth and "scattered" bruises and abrasions on his body.
Mr Gamble said Stuart later told a psychiatrist she had smoked marijuana and heard a voice saying her son was Jack the Ripper and that she had to kill him before he killed her.
She also told other hospital staff she had given Shaun some of her tablets, telling him "this is something for you".
A post-mortem examination found the child had ingested grapes and a quantity of the anti-psychotic drug used by Stuart.
However, Mr Gamble said the "physical act of smothering" had caused the boy's death.
Stuart admitted she had stopped taking her prescribed medicine about two months before her son's death.
A psychiatrist, Dr Douglas Bell, said Stuart's case manager had visited her a week before Shaun's death and found no evidence of psychosis.
He said that smoking marijuana could have exacerbated Stuart's illness.
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AUS: Mutter tötet vermeintliche Reinkarnation von 'Jack the Ripper' - Freispruch
Ascot Vale/Australien: Weil eine Stimme ihr sagte, ihr zweijähriger Sohn sei 'Jack the Ripper' und sie müsse ihn töten, bevor er sie töte, erstickte eine 38-jährige Mutter im März 2002 ihren kleinen Jungen.
Die Richter kamen dem Antrag des Verteidigers nach und sprachen die Frau aufgrund ihrer psychischen Erkrankung frei. Zudem sei sie zum Tatzeitpunkt bekifft gewesen. Die 38-Jährige muss jedoch in einer psychiatrischen Klinik verbleiben.
Die Mutter hatte dem Jungen zunächst Psychopharmaka verabreicht und ihn dann getötet. Sie leidete schon zuvor an paranoider Schizophrenie, hatte jedoch ihre Medikamente nach Absprache mit dem Therapeuten eine Woche vor der Tat abgesetzt.
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