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Jamie Sarkonak: Reopen the asylums
Tumbler Ridge shooter not the first violent person to be released from psychiatric detention
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The Alberta father who severed his daughter’s esophagus and punctured her lung is currently enjoying freedom as he awaits his sentence. This wasn’t for his family’s lack of trying: after he was granted bail by a nonchalant judge (after which he made a series of social media posts admitting his guilt), a relative tried getting him detained on mental health grounds. He was taken in for a psychiatric evaluation — only to be released shortly afterward.
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It’s a story that plays out again and again in Canada. Another notable case? The Tumbler Ridge shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar (or Strang), had been visited by police on “multiple occasions over the past several years dealing with concerns of mental health” and was apprehended under B.C.’s Mental Health Act “for assessment and follow-up,” according to the RCMP in a news conference after the tragedy.
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