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Girl 'beheaded' in attack in Taiwan capital, Taipei

A four-year-old girl has been beheaded in the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, in what appears to have been a random attack, local media say.

The attack is said to have taken place as the child was cycling towards a metro station with her mother.

The girl was grabbed from behind and killed with a cleaver. The attacker was wrestled to the ground by passers-by.

Police told the Taiwanese Central News Agency (CNA) that he had a history of mental illness.

The mother told CNA that her daughter had been unable to ride her bike on to a pavement and she thought the man was coming to help her. Instead he began attacking her.

"I saw the suspect slashing my daughter with a cleaver. I immediately grabbed him but I could not pull him away."
Angry crowd

She said she screamed for help and people rushed to pin the man down until police arrived.

An angry crowd later gathered outside the police station where the man - named only as Wang, 33 - had been taken, CNA reported.

He had a record of drug abuse and had been treated for mental illness, the agency added.

Doctor who found James Holmes sane says mental illness caused him to attack Colorado theater

Defense attorneys trying to spare the life of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes turned Monday to a court-appointed psychiatrist who previously testified for prosecutors that Holmes was legally sane during the 2012 attack but his mental illness led him to open fire.

Dr. Jeffrey Metzner's finding has not changed: He concluded that Holmes knew right from wrong when he killed 12 people and injured 70 others, therefore meeting the legal definition of sanity under Colorado law. But Metzner also says the attack would not have happened if not for Holmes' mental illness. The defense hopes that will persuade jurors to sentence Holmes to life in prison without parole instead of to death.

"Having psychosis doesn't take away your capacity to make choices. It may increase your capacity to make bad choices," Metzner testified Monday. "He acted on his delusions, and that's a reflection of the severity of his mental illness."

Metzner, who diagnosed Holmes with schizoaffective disorder, said he did not think Holmes went on his rampage to get notoriety or because of his longstanding hatred of mankind, which he described in a spiral notebook. Instead, Metzner said, Holmes' actions were "directly related" to delusions that killing people would increase his self-worth.

warmonger1981 wrote:One of my friends actually talks to the sky like there are people there.

waauw wrote:Put them in a psychiatry division. It's not their fault the disease turned them into an aberration.

Now, whenever people arguing on the same theory do not reach the same conclusion, you may be sure they do not know what they are talking about.

1 lb. beefsteak
1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours
1 ten-mile walk every morning
1 bed at eleven sharp every night
And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.