PARENTS CLAIM DOCTOR TRIED TO TURN SON INTO KILLER

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The estate of a discredited neuropsychiatrist is being sued by parents who claim he tried to erase part of their autistic son's brain as part of a plan "to train an army of killers."
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Interesting to note, mind control victims and their families have been speaking of this sort of thing for quite awhile now, and it has been considered 'fringe', or just outright delusional.

Maybe this is the tip of the iceberg that might start to bring this type of activity to light with the general public?

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Parents claim psychiatrist tried to turn son into killer

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Friday, December 15, 2000

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TACOMA -- The estate of a discredited neuropsychiatrist is being sued by parents who claim he tried to erase part of their autistic son's brain as part of a plan "to train an army of killers."

Trial began Thursday in the case brought by Stephen and Jeanie Drummond against the estate of Donald Dudley, who died in October at age 64, and his wife, Irene, over the treatment of their son, Stephen Drummond, 30, of Spokane.

The Drummonds say Stephen won't ever be able to work or live on his own and are asking a Pierce County Superior Court to award unspecified damages for pain and suffering, treatment and lost wages.

"When it was all said and done, a young man was destroyed," Lisa Marchese, a lawyer for the Drummonds, said in her opening statement. "Stephen lives in abject terror of lapsing back into the delusional state that Dr. Dudley throttled him headlong into."

Dudley said he "used powerful drugs and hypnotic suggestions to train an army of killers from the ranks of his patients," Marchese asserted.

"I know it sounds like a bizarre episode of the 'X-Files,' " she said.

Drugs given by Dudley made Stephen Drummond psychotic and delusional, symptoms not usually associated with autism, she said.

"He'd start ranting and raving about Navy Seals and killing children and police officers," Marchese said.

The Dudleys' lawyer, Amy Forbis, said the doctor was unconventional and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder but maintained that the son's decline was a normal result of autism and had nothing to do with his treatment.

"This wasn't an evil man," Forbis said. "This wasn't a man out to form an army. It's sad, doctors are human too."

Marchese gave the following account:

Dudley began treating Drummond for a seizure disorder in 1989 and, in October 1990, injected him with sodium amytal, a powerful sedative. The doctor's files indicate he intended to erase part of Drummond's brain and implant new behavioral characteristics.

By February 1992, Stephen Drummond sat in his room all day, talking to himself, neither driving nor bathing and in need of constant care.

Later that year, a doctor at UCLA told the parents that if she had known from the start what Dudley was doing, she would have urged them to end the treatment and report him to the state.

In November 1992 the mother confronted Dudley, who told her he was going to take over hospitals, police forces and schools and that she was lucky her son was part of his intended army.

"Dr. Dudley told her he was working for the CIA, and if she told anybody about this, he'd kill her," Marchese said.

That was when the Drummonds stopped seeing Dudley.

Forbis said the Drummonds knew Dudley's methods were unusual and maintained that their son's outbursts and violence were thoroughly documented before the neuropsychiatrist was consulted.

Dudley, a graduate of the University of Washington Medical School, did postgraduate work in psychiatry and was a professor at the school from the mid-1960s until he resigned in 1991.

Two years later he was diagnosed with bipolar disease and his medical license was suspended.

Marchese said one reason for the suspension was that Dudley told a chronic fatigue syndrome patient from Arizona to learn martial arts and the use of guns to help the doctor's cause. Dudley claimed he was from another planet and was one of 100 people who rule the earth, she said.

In another episode cited in the suspension, according to news reports, Bellevue police found Dudley with an arsenal of guns in a hotel room where he was treating a suicidal 15-year-old boy.

The boy reportedly threatened a hotel clerk with a .44-caliber Magnum semiautomatic pistol.