I found this on the RMNEWS_DAILY_EMAILS WEBPAGE -- From the front page of Rumor Mill News -- Click on the text link to the lower left of the logo -- the one that says" RMNEWS DAILY UPDATES
Thanks to Quentin for posting it.
Wouldn't it be a miracle if the defendent's lawyer pulled in experts in the field of mind control to testify at his trial?
From: Quentin Quisp
Date: Sun Aug 13, 2000 8:23pm
Subject: Mind Control In Orange County, CA ?
Once again, a victim of government mind control/torture is labeled
as "delusional"......
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Los Angeles Times : Saturday, August 12, 2000
CALIFORNIA:
A man accused of intentionally plowing his car into a Costa Mesa
preschool playground conceived the attack years in advance, hoping
that killing "innocent" children would halt the voices he claims the
government was beaming into his brain, according to records unsealed
Friday.
Psychiatric reports, released by an Orange County judge at the
request of The Times, provide the 1st detailed look into the mind of
a man accused of killing 2 preschoolers and injuring 5 others in May
1999.
In interviews with psychiatrists appointed by the court, Steven Allen
Abrams repeatedly expresses disbelief at his own actions while
justifying them as the only way to stop the "brain waves" that
flooded his mind. "I still don't believe I did it, that I could
possibly do what I did," Abrams said. "I'm not a killer. . . . I love
kids."
The 40-year-old Santa Ana man said he doesn't care whether he's put
to death but worries about encountering in court the families of the
victims, Sierra Soto, 4, and Brandon Wiener, 3.
"I dread the day I have to go to court to face them," he
said. "There's nothing I could say to them. If I said, 'Sorry,' that
wouldn't be appropriate."
The 52 pages of psychiatric records portray Abrams as a man haunted
by delusions that the CIA or some other government agency wanted him
to become a killer. For several years, he drove by the Costa Mesa day-
care center, believing that if he killed the children, the government
would stop torturing his mind.
According to the psychiatric records, Abrams began to display mental
problems in 1994, about the time a spurned romantic relationship
developed into stalking charges. He eventually spent several months
in jail and psychiatric hospitals. Abrams began looking for new
meaning in coincidences and became convinced people were following
him, according to the records.
After interviewing Abrams at the Orange County Jail, Dr. David
Sheffner concluded that the accused child killer suffers from "a most
severe and major disorder." Another psychiatrist, Jose Moral, found
that Abrams probably didn't understand "the wrongfulness of his
actions" at the time of the crime.
Abrams, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, could face
the death penalty if convicted. His trial is expected to begin in the
next few weeks.
Defense attorneys are expected to base their case on mental illness,
but Abrams contends to the psychiatrists that he functioned normally
until age 34, even raising a daughter as a single parent.
Both psychiatrists traced Abrams' mental troubles to his brief
relationship in 1994 with a neighbor, who broke up with him after a
few weeks. Abrams pleaded guilty to stalking the ex-girlfriend but
now says it was only because the judge in that case, Robert D.
Monarch, "tricked" him.
"He was one of the brain wave people, the judge," Abrams said in the
psychiatric reports.
The fatal attack at the Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center
came hours after a confrontation with another driver on the Costa
Mesa Freeway. When the driver of a Toyota Camry cut in front of him,
Abrams said, he figured the government was behind it and proceeded to
ram the car until the driver got out of his way, according to the
records.
He drove himself and his 19-year-old daughter home, then became
enraged when he realized his actions on the freeway could cost him
his driver's license and his car. "I'm going to end it all," Abrams
told his daughter, Stephanie Young, according to the reports. He
grabbed his keys and left the house. He was ready "to do it, after
all these years of thinking about it," he states in the court
records.
His daughter, in interviews with the court psychiatrists, recalled
that she told him, "Don't hurt anybody."
The preschool, Abrams said, was an appropriate target because it was
affiliated with a Baptist church. In addition to an unknown
government agency, Abrams blamed the Baptist church for his troubles.
He thought the church might also have been toying with his mind out
of anti- Semitism. Abrams' father, who died when he was a child, was
Jewish, according to the records.
Abrams told psychiatrists that he drove his Cadillac Coupe de Ville
past the preschool, turned around and accelerated into the
playground, pinning children beneath the car. He sat in the car,
weeping and rambling about the judge, until police arrived.
For his insanity defense to prevail, Abrams' lawyers must prove he
could not understand the consequences of his actions on the day of
the crime. The 2 court-appointed psychiatrists, Sheffner and Moral,
conclude in their reports that Abrams suffers from psychotic
delusions, but only one would say Abrams reached that legal
threshold.
One of the doctors, Moral, wrote that he thought it was significant
that Abrams had discussed the delusions with others for several
years. His daughter told Moral in an interview that her father talked
about killing preschool children as long as 5 years ago, the records
state.
In his interview with psychiatrist Sheffner, Abrams described
dressing in military fatigues during psychotic episodes. The
government was trying to reach him through television, radio, books
and magazines, he said.
Their message: Kill.
"I was training every day because I knew the military was doing this
to me," he said.
UCLA law professor Peter Arenella said these earlier displays of
instability could help Abrams in the eyes of jurors.
"Testimony from lay witnesses months and even years before the crime
in which the defendant expressed the same irrational, delusional
thoughts goes a long way to rebutting claims of fabrication," he
said.
If a jury finds Abrams not guilty by reason of insanity, he would be
sent to a state psychiatric hospital indefinitely.
Abrams' attorneys, Denise Gragg and Leonard Gumlia, would not comment
on the psychiatric reports. Deputy Dist. Atty. Debora Lloyd, who
argued against release of the records, said she thought the
psychiatrists appointed by the court were "mostly defense doctors."
"It's one-sided," she said of the reports.
Abrams said he understands that the victims' parents probably want
him to get the death penalty. But he's not concerned about his fate.
"They're going to kill me, the brain wave people. They're assassins,"
Abrams said, according to the reports. "No matter what happens at the
trial, I'll have to deal with them in the end."
(source: Los Angeles Times-- 8/12/00)
