From the
November 3, 2012 Arizona Republic comes a double tragedy:
Jesus Ricardo Murrieta will turn 22 this month, but he will celebrate
his birthday in an Arizona prison, where he will live for the next 22
years after being sentenced for a 2011 murder he might never have
committed had Phoenix police known he’d escaped from the Arizona State
Hospital.
Murrieta killed April Maria Mott in her apartment near 32nd Street
and Osborn Road in August 2011, three months after he’d escaped from the
hospital’s civil unit by stealing the badge off a security guard and
running out of the facility.
The hospital’s initial response was to treat Murrieta’s departure as
an escape, prompting staff to file a missing-persons report with Phoenix
police.
That report was rescinded a day later, after hospital administrators
and doctors determined that Murrieta had been admitted to the facility
voluntarily.
Murrieta had a long history of mental illness and legal problems, starting with bad parents:
Murrieta was born to drug-addicted parents in southern Arizona who
had their parental rights severed, leaving Murrieta and his siblings in
the care of abusive grandparents, attorneys told Stephens.
Murrieta first attempted suicide when he was 18, leading to a series
of commitments to mental-health facilities in Tucson and Phoenix. He was
using methamphetamine when he killed Mott, the attorneys said.
Mott was a paranoid schizophrenic whose symptoms were not initially recognized, but he was in and out of state mental hospitals. It is hard to read this account and see what part deinstitutionalization played in it -- but it seems hard to imagine that Murrieta's voluntary commitment after a suicide attempt is not related to this. At a minimum, Arizona's mental health system seems to have failed Murrieta, Mott, and their families.
I was the first to fully cover the May, 2011, violent escape of the known to be violent patient, Jesus Rincon Murrieta., in the first of my own activist blogs, "PJ Reed. The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse:" wherein I remain dedicated to defending the never enforced civil and human rights of US citizens who like myself are affected and disabled by serous mental illness. See in the above cited blogspot site: "A Modern Day Horror Story." By PJ Reed. April 15, 2012. Today, as per my many experiences in recent years, as bad acting American psychiatrists increasingly appear of hospital settings well away from state management only, I am further focused upon the nature of persons who would ever wind up beating up on very much high at risk and distinctly vulnerable human beings, be they mentally ill men, mentally ill women, or by they mentally ill kids. This first blog served as the impetus to long past due federal oversight and intervention there at ASH circa the years 2013-15, which in early 2015 led to no less than 6 higher ranking AZ health care officials associated with the operation of ASH circa 2010-2015, being summarily fired. But not own them are held accountable for the roles they played in the cover of Jesus Murrieta''s May, 2011, escape from ASH. Thus, after 15 dedicated. years to doing what I be now fairly well, I know the truth about these kind of doctors today, from the atrocious history of the professon itself, to the equally disturbing history of least responsible governing entity in the hlstory of modern medicine, The American Psychiatric Association, which has been running hangs since early on the 20th century- and all that implies. My current work can be found on-line today: "2026. PJ Reed. The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse." (note that the addition of the year date, 2026, is to emphasize that even in this day and age they still act no better than they did in 2011, and so on).
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