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"Jason Spaceman" |
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01 Apr 2004 03:17:28 AM |
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In the News: Psychiatrist Says Texas Woman Was Insane |
From the article:
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TYLER, Texas (AP)--A psychiatrist for the prosecution testified
Wednesday that a mother who crushed her sons' skulls with rocks was
suffering from delusions and did not know right from wrong.
Dr. Park Dietz said Deanna Laney believed God ordered her to kill her
children last Mother's Day weekend. ``She struggled over whether to
obey God or to selfishly keep her children,'' Dietz testified.
Laney, a 39-year-old stay-at-home mother who homeschooled her
children, has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to charges of
capital murder and serious injury to a child in the deaths of
8-year-old Joshua and 6-year-old Luke and severe injury to
then-14-month-old Aaron.
Dietz said that Laney, who is deeply religious, had a series of
delusions on the day of the killings. He said she saw Aaron with a
spear, then throwing a rock, then squeezing a frog and believed God
was suggesting she should either stab, stone or strangle her children.
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Read it at http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V5057.AP-Children-Slain.html
or http://tinyurl.com/28x4j
J. Spaceman
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| User: "William Klee" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Psychiatrist Says Texas Woman Was Insane |
01 Apr 2004 09:12:07 PM |
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I could have told you that.
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| User: "W. Syme" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Psychiatrist Says Texas Woman Was Insane |
01 Apr 2004 05:42:26 AM |
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On 1 Apr 2004 01:17:28 -0800, (Jason
Spaceman) had the following opinion:
Dr. Park Dietz said Deanna Laney believed God ordered her to kill her
children last Mother's Day weekend.
How is that any more insane than thinking god want's you to go to a
special building every sunday to sing?
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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
W. Syme (pseudonym), European, non-native English speaker, "soft" atheist.
Email will not be read.
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| User: "Denis Loubet" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Psychiatrist Says Texas Woman Was Insane |
01 Apr 2004 09:43:00 AM |
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"W. Syme" <Winston.Syme.superstitions@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:0491fcd566f9e44ca31c222b8df9a8bf@news.1usenet.com...
On 1 Apr 2004 01:17:28 -0800, (Jason
Spaceman) had the following opinion:
Dr. Park Dietz said Deanna Laney believed God ordered her to kill her
children last Mother's Day weekend.
How is that any more insane than thinking god want's you to go to a
special building every sunday to sing?
And why are the same people that believe god talks to people not taking her
at her word?
--
Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
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| User: "SMChristenson" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Psychiatrist Says Texas Woman Was Insane |
01 Apr 2004 06:15:42 PM |
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On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:43:00 -0600, Denis Loubet wrote:
"W. Syme" <Winston.Syme.superstitions@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:0491fcd566f9e44ca31c222b8df9a8bf@news.1usenet.com...
On 1 Apr 2004 01:17:28 -0800, (Jason
Spaceman) had the following opinion:
Dr. Park Dietz said Deanna Laney believed God ordered her to kill her
children last Mother's Day weekend.
How is that any more insane than thinking god want's you to go to a
special building every sunday to sing?
And why are the same people that believe god talks to people not taking
her at her word?
Yeah, what does a psychiatrist know? Wouldn't he be part of the secular
humanist commie scientific godless contemporary society that fundies want
to roll back to the good, old days of revelation?
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Psychiatrist Says Texas Woman Was Insane |
02 Apr 2004 06:12:09 PM |
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On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:42:26 GMT, W. Syme
<Winston.Syme.superstitions@fastmail.fm>, Message ID:
<0491fcd566f9e44ca31c222b8df9a8bf@news.1usenet.com> wrote in
alt.atheism;
On 1 Apr 2004 01:17:28 -0800, (Jason
Spaceman) had the following opinion:
Dr. Park Dietz said Deanna Laney believed God ordered her to kill her
children last Mother's Day weekend.
How is that any more insane than thinking god want's you to go to a
special building every sunday to sing?
It isn't. The asylum inmates are outside and running the show.
Stoney
"Designated Rascal and Rapscallion
and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
/end humour alert
alt.atheism military veteran #11
{so much for the 'no atheists in foxholes' rubbish}
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