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Drope v. Missouri, 420 U.S. 162 (1975), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held a Missouri trial court deprived a defendant of due process by failing to order a competency examination after he was hospitalized following an attempted suicide and as a result missed a portion of his trial for a capital offense.
Child services investigated Ammons for possible child abuse or neglect, and while she was found to be of “sound mind,” the agency took custody of her children without a court order.
In April 2012, an unnamed complainant filed an official report with DCS asking the agency to investigate Ammons for possible child abuse or neglect. The source reported that they believed Ammons ...
An earlier made-for-TV-film based on the case, The Demon Murder Case, was produced in 1983 and starred Kevin Bacon. [16] Netflix produced a documentary in 2023, The Devil On Trial, based on this case. [17] It includes interviews with Carl Glatzel, whose comments suggest a naturalistic alternative to demonic possession: the influence of Sominex ...
Spirit possession of any kind, including demonic, is just one psychiatric or medical diagnosis recognized by the DSM-5 or the ICD-10: "F44.3 Trance and possession disorders". [126] In clinical psychiatry, trance and possession disorders are defined as "states involving a temporary loss of the sense of personal identity and full awareness of the ...
From last September to January, there were more than 10,000 open child abuse and neglect cases each month that were more than 45 days old. From last September to January, there were more than ...
Physical abuse in a religious context can take the form of beatings, illegal confinement, neglect, near drowning or even murder in the belief that the child is possessed by evil spirits, practicing sorcery or witchcraft, or has committed some kind of sin that warrants punishment. Such extreme cases are, though, rare.
The booking mug shot of Jennifer Hall after her arrest on May 12, 2022. A respiratory therapist, Hall pleaded guilty in 2023 of killing two of her patients in 2002 at a hospital in Chillicothe, Mo.