GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Friday, April 15, 2005

Want to get away with murder?

Well, just come to Toronto.
Linda Wagman has been found not criminally responsible for stabbing a Kitchener man to death in 1997 due to a longstanding mental illness.

Yesterday, the Ontario Court of Appeal in Toronto quashed Wagman's guilty conviction for second-degree murder and substituted the new finding.

A jury had found Wagman guilty of stabbing Vincent Kraehling to death after a heated fight in the Kitchener apartment they shared on Nov. 11, 1997.

Wagman dismembered his body and buried his torso near a community trail in Kitchener. It was found four months later. The other body parts, including his head, were never found.
So, instead of prison, she gets sent to a hospital...
Wagman will undergo annual reviews by the Ontario Review Board, a board that examines the status of people who have been found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.

In a hospital, Wagman will have social workers and therapists who could develop a plan to ultimately release her gradually to a supervised group home, Gehl said.
How ridiculous...she should be getting psychiatric treatment while she sits in a jail cell.