From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

Bob Lawrence wrote:

>        I despair for our legal system.
> 
>  A 33-year-old mother with two small kids is looking after her
> 55-year-old uncle with dementia, and comes home to find him jerking
> off in front of the kids who are naturally fascinated to see a dong
> polished so thoroughly. Like your own arsehole, it is not something
> you see every day.

  That sounds about right - although possibly for the wrong reason.

  My aunt died of dimentia related illness last week so I know how they handle 
things like these.  My cousin was handling the situation and was suprised as to 
how much stuff-arsing with the coroner she had to go through.

  Apparently, anyone who dies, and happens to suffer from some type of dientia 
related illness, needs to go through a couple of days worth of paperwork 
shuffle to make sure no-one actually tried to kill them.

  You see, with dimentia, you don't know if you're being fed the drugs you were 
prescribed, or week killer from the garden, you don't know if you've eaten, or 
being fed soap from the bathroom, you don't really know much of anything with 
any certainty.  This is why you generally have guardians to take care of you 
and your matters.
  It's like leaving a child to their own matters.  If they happen to do 
something illegal, regardless if they knew what they were doing or not, 
ultimately, the parent/guardian is responsible.

  In theory.

  In practice, someone has to get blamed.  Conveniently, there is a law against 
killing people who have dimentia.  This is a cut and dried case, it's all 
documented and there are no matters that are disputed.  The uncle is dead, so 
we can't blame him.
  If the uncle _didn't_ die, the guardian would STILL be blamed, after all, why 
would you leave someone with dimentia to look after kids?  Kinda like the blind 
leading the blind.

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