Sunday, December 1, 2013

Virginia - Mother of twins murdered by estranged husband addresses mental health issues

A tragic loss. Is this another case where the Guardian ad litem failed in her role to protect the children?

CBS6 WTRV

Virginia’s mental health system faces a shakeup in wake of the tragic stabbing involving State Senator Creigh Deeds.

Governor McDonnell told WTOP radio on Tuesday morning that he’s making preliminary recommendations for the upcoming two-year budget and will announce his recommendations next week.

Deeds was stabbed multiple times last Tuesday by his 24-year-old son, who Deeds had sought to have committed to a mental health facility just hours earlier, but was denied because the emergency custody timeline ran out.

The family’s painful ordeal, brings back terrible memories for a Hanover County mother, whose three-year-old twin daughters were murdered by their father in January 2012.

Kristi Hooper believes her daughters, Caroline and Madison, would still be alive if the court system had not failed to order an emergency psychiatric evaluation of her estranged husband in time.

Full story and video CBS6 WTRV

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