Tag: Mental Health

It’s Time for Experimental Mental Health “Treatments” to be Considered Deadly Weapons

Written by Sheila Matthews on May 4, 2025. Posted in Articles.

May 4, 2025

Last week the world was marked safe from Robert Crimo’s murderous proclivities with a sentence having been handed down, providing seven consecutive life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for each of the people Crimo killed during his 2022 July 4th parade assault in Highland Park, Illinois. And, to cover all bases, the judge added another 50 years to Crimo’s sentence for each of the victims wounded during the attack.

According to sentencing Judge Victoria Rossetti, Crimo had “complete disregard for human life…was irretrievably depraved, permanently incorrigible, irreparably corrupt and beyond any rehabilitation.” So that’s a wrap. Another bad guy off the streets. But is it that simple? Did the public learn anything from this mass shooting?

How Far Up Does the Mental Health Fraud Go in Minnesota’s Medicaid Fraud Case?

Written by Sheila Matthews on January 12, 2025. Posted in Articles.

January 13, 2025

Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz

Medicaid fraud is apparently rampant in Minnesota’s Somali-speaking communities and, according to federal warrants, hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds may have been paid for services never provided. How, one might ask, is a financial fraud of this magnitude possible without state officials being aware? It’s simple. Zero oversight.

In a nutshell, the Minnesota legislature created the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) treatment program in 2017. The purpose of EIDBI was to provide intensive treatment to children under the age of 18 on the autism spectrum. Since the creation of EIDBI there has been a remarkable boom in autistic cases in Minnesota, especially among Somali children.

2012 Whistleblower of the Year Exposed Psycho Pharma Corruption: Continues to Call for Unyielding Accountability

Written by Sheila Matthews on December 29, 2024. Posted in Articles.

December 30, 2024

Former Investigator, Allen Jones
Photo: Houston Press

With the recent nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, (HHS) the nation’s premier federal health agency, it’s important to remember Kennedy’s rising star began decades ago by exposing fraudulent medical/corporate research and food safety issues. In a sense, Kennedy is a kind of whistleblower on a national level.

But he’s not the only one and, with Kennedy’s rise to power, AbleChild is reminded of another whistleblower, Allen Jones, whose exposure of dirty dealing between the pharmaceutical industry and state mental health agencies needs to be remembered and recognized.

Afterall, it takes courage to stand up to corruption and Jones, not one to shy away from controversy or be strong-armed into walking away, stood up to the behemoth pharmaceutical industry and ultimately protected children in ways they will never fully understand.

Another School Shooting. Another Mental Health Failure.

Written by Sheila Matthews on December 18, 2024. Posted in Articles.

December 18, 2024

Photo Credit Facebook, and reprinted by Daily Mail

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…”

Alarming Surge in Military Suicides: Pentagon Ignores Psychiatric Drugging

Written by Sheila Matthews on November 20, 2024. Posted in Articles.

November 21, 2024

With so much news about the recent Presidential election taking up most of the news cycle, the Department of Defense (DoD) Annual Report on Suicide for 2023 was released and, unfortunately, summarily ignored. Our Service members deserve more, especially in light of the findings in the report.

Suicides among active-duty military personnel are at all-time highs and according to a USO report, “some branches of the Armed Forces are experiencing the highest rate of suicides since before World War II.”

These data become even more startling when one understands that the same USO research reveals that “military suicide rates are four times higher than deaths that occurred during military operations.” By 2021, the data revealed that since 9/11 30,177 active-duty personnel and veterans died by suicide compared to the 7,057 service members killed in combat in those same twenty years.

School Shootings on Trial Again

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 8, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 9, 2024

In a hushed Georgia courtroom, father and son faced justice for a devastating murderous act that shook a community to its core. Fourteen-year-old Colt Gray sat before the judge, accused of snuffing out four lives at Apalachee High School. Grieving families watched silently as the teen faced four counts of first-degree murder, with the possibility of life in prison.

Colin Gray, 54, followed his son into the courtroom and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, four counts of involuntary manslaughter, and child cruelty. If convicted, Colin could face up to 180 years behind bars. As cameras captured the proceedings, father and son were assigned public defenders. After a brief recess, the teenage shooter was summoned back to the courtroom. The judge, realizing the need for clarification, formally advised the teenager that state law prohibited the death penalty for juveniles,

Is FBI Already Stonewalling on the Investigation into the Assassination Attempt?

Written by Sheila Matthews on July 15, 2024. Posted in Articles.

July 15, 2024

According to President Biden the FBI has been leading the investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. While law enforcement has identified the shooter as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, several key questions remain unanswered regarding the FBI’s response to the crime scene.

The lack of transparency during prior FBI investigations has raised concerns among the public and media about the FBI’s ability to this time conduct a thorough and responsible investigation, especially in light the “lawfare” that has been used against the former President. The shooting is being treated as an “attempted assassination” and act of domestic terrorism and the Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, is scheduled to testify before a House Oversight Committee on July 22^nd. The purpose of the hearing is to provide insight into how the twenty-year old was able to commit the assassination attempt, resulting in the former President being wounded, a fellow American dead and two others seriously injured.

School Shooters’ Nikolas Cruz & Audrey Hale Were Recipients of Drug Cocktails. It’s Time to Make Providers Accountable.

Written by Sheila Matthews on July 9, 2024. Posted in Articles.

July 9, 2024

Finally, journalists are asking the necessary questions relating to mass shootings, how they are investigated, prosecuted and where the responsibility lies. The Tennessee Star has nailed the questions that have escaped the smartest guys in the room – the behavioral health unit of the FBI, lawmakers, and the entire justice system. Who is responsible and how did the mental health treatments & psychiatric cocktails contribute to the motivations and actions of so many of today’s mass killers.

The Tennessee Star’s powerful series of leaked documents relating to Audrey Hale’s 22-years of psychiatric treatment by Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is shocking but, remarkably, not unlike the decades of treatment that the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter in Parkland, Fl., Nikolas Cruz, received at the hands of the Florida Henderson Behavioral Health, Inc.

Henderson is a behavioral health vendor that is funded by the State of Florida and had many opportunities during his “treatment” sessions to determine Cruz’s mental health status. What did Henderson’s mental health wizards conclude about Cruz? That’s right, Cruz was “not a harm to himself or anyone else” prior to his killing spree. Ironically, like Hale, Cruz lived a life of one psychiatric drug cocktail to the next.

Whistleblower Ohio Teacher Comes Forward to AbleChild on School Recommending Drugs in IEP

Written by Sheila Matthews on December 5, 2023. Posted in Articles.

I have been a middle school teacher for the last 24 years. I have watched young people, more often boys, be affected by the pushing of drugs for ADHD. I, myself have filled out the paperwork a thousand times sent by doctors that ask the most ridiculous questions to attempt to determine if a child should be medicated to change the chemical compounds of their brain. These children are already going through chemical changes in their bodies as they are typically of pre-pubescent/ pubescent age.

One big problem that I have noticed in the schools lately is that they have not only been adding more and more psychologists/psychiatrists to the districts but they are adding social workers to schools at all levels (elementaries to high schools). They are even giving degrees and incentivizing teachers to get added degrees in social work to bring more social workers into districts. This is such a mistake. They are trying to add an element of parental trust by using social workers because they believe these people will get parents to do what they want in terms of signing IEPs, listening to drs, starting them on meds, building trust, etc.

The National Defense Education Act versus the Mental Health & Drug Industries

Written by Sheila Matthews on May 30, 2023. Posted in Lawmaking, Public School.

The Biden-Harris Administration wants to help schools deliver “critical mental health care services” to students by, once again, proposing millions for an industry that has enjoyed billions over the years with deadly outcomes producing a generation in decline. This massive mental/behavioral health industry started out as a “carved out research program” on children. The program never received proper public hearings allowing the public, and particularly parents, to begin to understand the potential consequences of the strong pharmaceutical influence in the lives of their child’s daily routine at school or the potentially serious, long-term medical outcomes. The program was pushed into the education system; and it began in the smallest State, Rhode Island, in July, of 1970.