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Psychiatry to blame for abduction and rape of 11-year-old girl - Citizens Commission on Human Rights of St. Louis
25 September 2011, 9:09 am

Citizens Commission on Human Rights’ (CCHR) mission has always been to investigation and expose psychiatric violations of human rights, and crime and fraud in the mental health industry. One aspect of this has been to educate the public about the erosion of the justice system that started when psychiatric “expert witnesses” and mental health evaluators were allowed into our courts.

Courts, ignorant of psychiatry’s complete lack of medical and scientific substance, have put entirely too much value on the psychiatrists’ evaluations and recommendations.

A recent report issued by the El Dorado County (California) District Attorney solidifies this reality by systematically showing how law enforcement reliance on psychiatrists and other mental health evaluators in the legal system put the public in danger and enabled one of the most heinous federal crimes in recent memory.

On June 10, 1991, Phillip and Nancy Garrido abducted 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard in South Lake Tahoe, California and held her as a sex slave for the next 18 years, during which Dugard gave birth to two daughters fathered by Garrido.

In his August 2, 2011 report, the El Dorado County District Attorney (DA) points out that in March 1977, Garrido was given a 50-year federal prison sentence for kidnapping a young woman and was concurrently given a Nevada state prison sentence of five years to life for forcibly raping her (he’d handcuffed and sexually assaulted her for hours)......

[mefree]

CCHR continues to seize upon any negative press involving psychiatry in an attempt to sensationalize.

The DA (Vern Pierson) puts the blame on law enforcement failures. These failures include Garrido's prison release in 1988, failure to identify Garrido as a possible suspect in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, an over-reliance on psychiatry, failure of parole to properly supervise Garrido or investigate his contact with a former victim in 1988. 

Specifically, in relation to psychiatry Pierson cites:

“One of the primary reasons for this failure was the ongoing over-reliance of law enforcement on the psychiatric profession to predict Garrido’s future dangerousness.”

I'm not suggesting that psychiatry should avoid scrutiny in this case. Pierson raises a valid concern when he states:

“Common sense would tell you that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior,” the report says. “For some unknown reason, psychiatry in the criminal justice system relies far too little on past behavior and far too often on the statements from the criminal, who have a vested interest and motive in presenting themselves in a better light.”

However, there seems to be plenty of blame to go around without singling out psychiatry. Perhaps, we could start with the perpetrator, pedophile and serial rapist, Phillip Garrido.

Additional info at http://documents.latimes.com/garrido-dugard-case-findings/

[ethercat]

One psychiatrist =\ Psychiatry.

Why don't we gather some statistics regarding the ratio of scientologists who commit fraud and other assorted crimes to all scientologists, and then the same ratio with psychiatrists? 

Just the fact that the psychiatrists ARE psychiatrists is enough to make them all criminals in scientologists' eyes.

[mefree]

One psychiatrist =\ Psychiatry.

Why don't we gather some statistics regarding the ratio of scientologists who commit fraud and other assorted crimes to all scientologists, and then the same ratio with psychiatrists? 

Just the fact that the psychiatrists ARE psychiatrists is enough to make them all criminals in scientologists' eyes.

That sounds like an interesting fact-finding mission. Any volunteers?