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Woman pleads not guilty to stabbing Scientologists

I suspect this all won't look very good in court for the Scientologists...
 
Awful. Not too many details in that article, but it appears to be similar to this sad case:
Elli Perkins née Present (1949 – March 13, 2003) was a mother of two, a professional glass artist, and a Scientologist who lived in Western New York. She was a senior auditor at the Church of Scientology in Buffalo, New York. Her son, Jeremy, started showing signs of strange and disturbing behavior. She attempted to correct this with treatment by non-psychiatric means consistent with her Scientology beliefs, but his schizophrenia progressed to the point where he felt Elli was poisoning him, prompting an unsuccessful suicide attempt. When this failed, Jeremy instead murdered his mother.
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Perkins' son Jeremy, at age 24, began to show changes in behavior which concerned her. Jeremy told his father that he was hearing voices in his mind.[2] At that time, the Perkins sent Jeremy to join Scientology's Sea Org in California,[2] which they hoped would help resolve his troubling behavior. Jeremy's treatment didn't succeed with the Sea Org, so he returned to his parents within a few months, rejoining his job at his father's business.
A family friend explained; "Elli strongly believed that psychiatry was an evil", so she would not consult a psychiatrist about her son's behavior.[2] Scientologists believe as part of their ideology that psychiatry "doesn't work".[2] Court-ordered psychiatric evaluations of Jeremy Perkins showed that he was displaying symptoms of schizophrenia in 2001.[2] Jeremy's defense attorney John Nuchereno stated that his condition declined further over the summer of 2002, and that his father had to terminate his employment.[2] His deterioration exhausted the Church of Scientology's efforts to cure him. They classified Jeremy Perkins as a level III "Potential Trouble Source", and banned him from taking further Scientology courses.[2]
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That is very sad :(

I hope the family can recover and everyone involved (and still alive) receives the care they are entitled to. I also hope the no one is forced to disconnect.
 
It is sad. I can see a similarity to the JW's who are denied blood products. People are coming to harm due to some mad ramblings.
 
Damien Evans said:
Champagne just ***** me up the wall.

Oh no, your sparkling wine was made outside of champagne, so you can't call it what it is!
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I disagree wholeheartedly. What it is, is sparkling wine and they can call it that if they like.

What you seem to want is for someone to sell a shoe called a Nike, when it's not a real Nike.
 
Molinaro said:
I disagree wholeheartedly. What it is, is sparkling wine and they can call it that if they like.

What you seem to want is for someone to sell a shoe called a Nike, when it's not a real Nike.
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Yeah, Champagne is a region. It seems reasonable to ask that winemakers not use the word Champagne if their product is not from Champagne.
 
Bah- if they came and knocked on my door, I'd stab them too.

Oh wait- those are the JWs and the Mormons. Never mind.
 
Woman pleads not guilty to stabbing Scientologists





I vote not guilty - by reason of scientologist insanity!!!
 
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