I don't know about the rest of the country,but in Michigan, they consolidated the state mental institutions with prisons. in other words, there are no state mental hospitals. Mentally sick people who haven't committed a violent crime yet are only 'potentially' dangerous, are free to roam.
I am not saying everyone who is mentally ill should be institutionalized, just people like Terri Stimmel.
her neighbors were smart enough to make that connection, why not the justice system? Probation isn't going to stop her from turning her violence to children ......
PARCHMENT, Mich. (WOOD) -- A woman is going to jail after torturing her roommate's cat to death.
Terri Stimmel, 32, confessed to the latest incident. They say she kicked and stomped her roommate's cat, burned its ears in an oven, drowned it in a bathtub and put it in the clothes dryer before lying it on her roommate's bed to be discovered.
She was sentenced to a felony charge of torturing an animal and will spend 30 days in jail and three years probation. She isn't allowed to own an animal, and the court will likely mandate continued mental health counseling.
Part of Stimmell's sentence restricts her from contact with anyone under the age of 17.
Neighbors in the Parchment condo complex 24 Hour News 8 spoke with say they are thankful for that, worried someone with a mental health issue and a history of torturing animals might escalate into hurting children.
This isn't the first pet Stimmell has killed. Prosecutors say she admitted to killing five cats, a bird and a hamster under the influences of "uncontrollable urges."
Ok, she's obviously a mental case but she has a long history of killing other peoples pets. How dangerous does a psycho have to be to get committed?
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