The unnamed man will be held indefinitely in a mental health unit following the brutal slaying of his son in Sydney, Australia.
A schizophrenic father who stabbed his five-year-old son to death in a frenzied attack was found not guilty of murder by a judge in Australia on grounds of mental health., the unnamed 38-year-old Sydney man knifed his child 76 times during a psychotic episode in which he believed the boy was the Devil. He will now be detained indefinitely in a mental health unit after the ruling by the New South Wales Supreme Court.
Worried for her son, the boy's mother sent him to live with his grandmother. Two days prior to the killing, the man's partner and mother tried to have him admitted to a local hospital fearing for his state of mind, only to be told no beds were available.The Australian"I thought my son was the Devil. Well I know he is, but he's dead now, at least I think he is dead. The child was trying to tear my soul apart...
The grandmother had told mental health workers she worried that she would wake up at night and find the child dead because her son had"snapped," ABC reported.
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