Written by Sheila Matthews on . Posted in Articles
December 18, 2024
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Having covered school shootings for decades, it is encouraging that mental health information is being made public in record time. Just two days since the shooting in Madison Wisconsin and the fact that the shooter was receiving therapy has already hit the news cycle.
Fifteen-year-old Natalie (Samantha) Rupnow, the reported shooter at the Abundant Life Christian School, who opened fire on her fellow students and teachers, killing two and wounding six others, apparently was a pawn in her parent’s marital troubles. An unhappy kid to say the least.
According to a Washington Post report, the shooter’s parents married and divorced three times. The last divorce in 2021 provided a custody agreement that had the 15-year-old shuttling between each parent’s home every two or three days. And, given there was a custody case, it comes with the territory that the State’s Family Services Department would become involved. Another clue that the state became involved in Natalie’s welfare is that the parents were involved in mediation and according to the Post “Natalie had been enrolled in therapy, which was supposed to help guide decisions about which parent she would spend weekends with…”
Written by Sheila Matthews on . Posted in Articles
December 16, 2024
The Reality of the Bipartisan Task Force Investigation into Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump
The Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump Final Report. Sounds impressive. A Task Force. Like Storming a beachhead or cracking down on organized crime. Unfortunately, in the case of this Congressional committee, the American People did not get its money’s worth. In fact, after months of “investigating” the result of those efforts consists of what the People already knew…the Secret Service did an extremely lousy job of protecting the then former President.
Do the People know why the alleged shooter attacked the then former President? No. Do the People know what physical evidence was collected to determine who was the alleged shooter? You know like DNA, fingerprints, photographs? Nope. Did the Congressional Task Force interview the parents of the alleged shooter to determine what the family may have known about the shooting event, or did it bother to have a conversation with the alleged shooter’s employer? You know an employer who had a recent photo of the alleged shooter and not some insulting High School photo. No. Neither of those interviews happened.
Written by Sheila Matthews on . Posted in Articles
December 12, 2024
The Recent Bipartisan Task Force Final Report on the Assassination Attempt of President Trump has thrown Bethel Park Skilled Nursing Home back in the spotlight, where the alleged shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, worked as a dietary aide. The shocking assassination attempt on former President Trump, allegedly orchestrated and carried out by Crooks, has ignited a firestorm of controversy surrounding the nursing home and its apparent lack of participation in the investigation.
Disclosure of any mental health history of Crooks has not been made available by the parents who are both “behavioral health experts” and claim according to the FBI, their son wasn’t on any psychotropic drugs. Remember this information is coming from the father who handed his son a gun just hours before the assassination attempt and has failed to explain how, both “experts” in behavioral health, he and his wife missed or ignored signs that their son’s mental health was deteriorating.
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The Recent Bipartisan Task Force Final Report on the Assassination Attempt of President Trump has thrown Bethel Park Skilled Nursing Home back in the spotlight, where the alleged shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, worked as a dietary aide. The shocking assassination attempt on former President Trump, allegedly orchestrated and carried out by Crooks, has ignited a firestorm of controversy surrounding the nursing home and its apparent lack of participation in the investigation.
Disclosure of any mental health history of Crooks has not been made available by the parents who are both “behavioral health experts” and claim according to the FBI, their son wasn’t on any psychotropic drugs. Remember this information is coming from the father who handed his son a gun just hours before the assassination attempt and has failed to explain how, both “experts” in behavioral health, he and his wife missed or ignored signs that their son’s mental health was deteriorating.