Son decapitates mother, couldn't get meds in time

[Luddly Neddite]

You have no idea how hard it is to get someone committed. And under a commitment, as soon as they are stabilized , they are released with orders to take their meds. It is a sad situation for families.

This is the son who beheaded his mother and kicked her head along the street before jumping under a train in New York.

Mentally-ill Derek Ward, 35, decapitated his 66-year-old mother, Patricia, on Tuesday night before dragging her body outside their apartment in Farmingdale, New York, in what neighbours thought at first was a Halloween prank.

It was claimed today Prof. Ward was two days away from an appointment to get Derek the medication he had been without for four days, that could have saved her life.

'She had an appointment set up for (Friday),' her brother, the Rev. Robert Lubrano, told the New York Daily News. 'She finally met a compassionate psychiatrist, but she'll never make it to see him.'

Describing Derek as a 'sick, sick boy', Rev. Lubrano said Derek had battled psychiatric issues for ten years, but had never shown any signs of violence.

He said: 'He killed my sister because we couldn't get the prescriptions he needed. For four days, he didn't have his meds.

'She's dead because he had a mental illness, and we didn't know how serious it was. We're in terrible shock. She was a wonderful person.'

Derek had apparently sat with his mother's mutilated body for a few minutes inside their blood-spattered home following the brutal attack before taking it outside and kicking her head 20 feet.

Neighbours initially thought it was part of a Halloween prank and tried to pick up the body. As they were doing so, Derek jumped in front of an oncoming Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train.

Rev. Lubrano told the paper Derek, who had attention deficit disorder and was dyslexic, was too old to be covered by his mother's insurance and they struggled to find a doctor who would accept Medicaid.

But he said they finally found one at a cost of $200 for a 20 minute visit, adding that his sister did 'everything she could to keep him alive'.


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What an incredible attack and degree of insanity.

Sad. Beyond sad.

People should not be forced to go without treatment.

NOTE - GRAPHIC CONTENT AT LINK

from your link

suffered from psychiatric problems for ten years

also from you link

For four days, he didn't have his meds.

So , are we to believe that for 3,646 days he had meds, but some how the family just couldn't find a way to get those meds for those last 4 days?

Why wasn't this guy committed to some kind of facility?

Sounds to me like the mom decapitated herself, the son was merely the weapon

depotoo is correct. As usual, dumber than every bear on the planet is clueless.

Remember the two separate shooting victims who had desperately tried to get help.

Our mental health system is backward and archaic and people suffer or are killed because idiot RWs/Repub care about giving more money to the 1% than to tax payers who deserve it.

 

[guno]

Beheading seems to be quite fashionable these days. .......

especially in christian circles

 

[CrusaderFrank]

You have no idea how hard it is to get someone committed. And under a commitment, as soon as they are stabilized , they are released with orders to take their meds. It is a sad situation for families.

This is the son who beheaded his mother and kicked her head along the street before jumping under a train in New York.

Mentally-ill Derek Ward, 35, decapitated his 66-year-old mother, Patricia, on Tuesday night before dragging her body outside their apartment in Farmingdale, New York, in what neighbours thought at first was a Halloween prank.

It was claimed today Prof. Ward was two days away from an appointment to get Derek the medication he had been without for four days, that could have saved her life.

'She had an appointment set up for (Friday),' her brother, the Rev. Robert Lubrano, told the New York Daily News. 'She finally met a compassionate psychiatrist, but she'll never make it to see him.'

Describing Derek as a 'sick, sick boy', Rev. Lubrano said Derek had battled psychiatric issues for ten years, but had never shown any signs of violence.

He said: 'He killed my sister because we couldn't get the prescriptions he needed. For four days, he didn't have his meds.

'She's dead because he had a mental illness, and we didn't know how serious it was. We're in terrible shock. She was a wonderful person.'

Derek had apparently sat with his mother's mutilated body for a few minutes inside their blood-spattered home following the brutal attack before taking it outside and kicking her head 20 feet.

Neighbours initially thought it was part of a Halloween prank and tried to pick up the body. As they were doing so, Derek jumped in front of an oncoming Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train.

Rev. Lubrano told the paper Derek, who had attention deficit disorder and was dyslexic, was too old to be covered by his mother's insurance and they struggled to find a doctor who would accept Medicaid.

But he said they finally found one at a cost of $200 for a 20 minute visit, adding that his sister did 'everything she could to keep him alive'.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815496/Farmingdale-mom-beheaded-suicidal-son-couldn-t-medication-time-prevent-tragedy.html#ixzz3HjxF3VAc
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What an incredible attack and degree of insanity.

Sad. Beyond sad.

People should not be forced to go without treatment.

NOTE - GRAPHIC CONTENT AT LINK

from your link

suffered from psychiatric problems for ten years

also from you link

For four days, he didn't have his meds.

So , are we to believe that for 3,646 days he had meds, but some how the family just couldn't find a way to get those meds for those last 4 days?

Why wasn't this guy committed to some kind of facility?

Sounds to me like the mom decapitated herself, the son was merely the weapon

depotoo is correct. As usual, dumber than every bear on the planet is clueless.

Remember the two separate shooting victims who had desperately tried to get help.

Our mental health system is backward and archaic and people suffer or are killed because idiot RWs/Repub care about giving more money to the 1% than to tax payers who deserve it.

Obama redid the entire fucking healthcare system so just shut the fuck up already

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[CrusaderFrank]

Beheading seems to be quite fashionable these days. .......

especially in christian circles

What's the Torah portion for tomorrow, Fake Jew Sock Account?

Sent from smartphone using my wits and Taptalk

 

[depotoo]

Luddly, this is not a right vs left problem.

Mental Health Systems Legislation Message to the Congress Transmitting the Proposed Legislation.
May 15, 1979

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To the Congress of the United States:

I am today submitting to Congress the Mental Health Systems Act. This proposed legislation establishes a new partnership between the federal government and the states in the planning 'and provision of mental health services. It seeks to assure that the chronically mentally ill no longer face the cruel alternative of unnecessary institutionalization or inadequate care in the community. It provides local communities with more flexible federal support for mental health services and places a new emphasis on the prevention of mental illness.

You have no idea how hard it is to get someone committed. And under a commitment, as soon as they are stabilized , they are released with orders to take their meds. It is a sad situation for families.

This is the son who beheaded his mother and kicked her head along the street before jumping under a train in New York.

Mentally-ill Derek Ward, 35, decapitated his 66-year-old mother, Patricia, on Tuesday night before dragging her body outside their apartment in Farmingdale, New York, in what neighbours thought at first was a Halloween prank.

It was claimed today Prof. Ward was two days away from an appointment to get Derek the medication he had been without for four days, that could have saved her life.

'She had an appointment set up for (Friday),' her brother, the Rev. Robert Lubrano, told the New York Daily News. 'She finally met a compassionate psychiatrist, but she'll never make it to see him.'

Describing Derek as a 'sick, sick boy', Rev. Lubrano said Derek had battled psychiatric issues for ten years, but had never shown any signs of violence.

He said: 'He killed my sister because we couldn't get the prescriptions he needed. For four days, he didn't have his meds.

'She's dead because he had a mental illness, and we didn't know how serious it was. We're in terrible shock. She was a wonderful person.'

Derek had apparently sat with his mother's mutilated body for a few minutes inside their blood-spattered home following the brutal attack before taking it outside and kicking her head 20 feet.

Neighbours initially thought it was part of a Halloween prank and tried to pick up the body. As they were doing so, Derek jumped in front of an oncoming Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train.

Rev. Lubrano told the paper Derek, who had attention deficit disorder and was dyslexic, was too old to be covered by his mother's insurance and they struggled to find a doctor who would accept Medicaid.

But he said they finally found one at a cost of $200 for a 20 minute visit, adding that his sister did 'everything she could to keep him alive'.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815496/Farmingdale-mom-beheaded-suicidal-son-couldn-t-medication-time-prevent-tragedy.html#ixzz3HjxF3VAc
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What an incredible attack and degree of insanity.

Sad. Beyond sad.

People should not be forced to go without treatment.

NOTE - GRAPHIC CONTENT AT LINK

from your link

suffered from psychiatric problems for ten years

also from you link

For four days, he didn't have his meds.

So , are we to believe that for 3,646 days he had meds, but some how the family just couldn't find a way to get those meds for those last 4 days?

Why wasn't this guy committed to some kind of facility?

Sounds to me like the mom decapitated herself, the son was merely the weapon

depotoo is correct. As usual, dumber than every bear on the planet is clueless.

Remember the two separate shooting victims who had desperately tried to get help.

Our mental health system is backward and archaic and people suffer or are killed because idiot RWs/Repub care about giving more money to the 1% than to tax payers who deserve it.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Didn't used to be a partisan question, but it most certainly is now.

The right will not allow treatment for mental illness because it would cut into their voting pool.

 

[depotoo]

That's pure bull, Luddly, and you know it. Sad, we actually agreed on womething then you have to make it a partisan hate fest again. Even sadder, on such an important issue.

Didn't used to be a partisan question, but it most certainly is now.

The right will not allow treatment for mental illness because it would cut into their voting pool.

 

[Treeshepherd]

If you like your head, you can keep your head- B.O.

 

[MaxGrit]

Bullshit reason for the murder suicide.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

If Obama had a son.................................