Hey, just wondering out loud here.
And they say that women control the mental health card....http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/deadly-delusions-led-to-boys-stab-death/story-e6freuy9-1225936815083
Deadly delusions led to boy's stab death
Lisa Davies
From: The Daily Telegraph October 11, 2010 12:00AM
A FATHER claimed "voices made me kill my son" after he allegedly stabbed his 12-year-old child to death as the boy slept, a court was told yesterday.
The man then allegedly showered, walked outside and stabbed two other men near his unit block.
The father, 30, will undergo a psychiatric report after allegedly telling police as he was arrested on Saturday: "Voices in my head made me do it, voices made me kill my son."
The boy's grief-stricken mother was yesterday understood to be in the care of friends as her former partner faced Parramatta Bail Court.
The boy's father lived with his son and former girlfriend in the Terminus St house.
Police allege the youngster was asleep in his room and his father was watching television in the lounge room when the mother left to go shopping.
"At some stage the accused approached [his son] while he was sleeping and stabbed him numerous times. After the killing, the accused has attempted to clean blood from the unit and later showered to clean himself of the blood," police alleged in a document presented to the court.
A short time later he allegedly left the unit, approaching a mother and her son, 26, in the common area of the apartment complex.
"The accused has asked them if they had seen his cat, and then asked [the son] to help him look for his cat," police alleged.
The boy agreed, but at the end of a common walkway, the accused allegedly drew a knife and stabbed the young man in the chest.
Upon hearing his screams, another resident of the complex, a 50-year-old man, confronted the knife-wielding man, only to be stabbed in the chest, receiving a punctured lung. The man allegedly made the claims about voices in his head during a later interview with detectives.
"The accused made a number of admissions in relation to stabbing and killing his son, and also stabbing [the 26-year-old] with an intent to kill him," police said.
"He claims to suffer paranoid schizophrenia and said voices made him kill and stab [the other men]."
Magistrate Ian McRae refused bail. The man will reappear in Parramatta Local Court on November 11.
