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With staffing issues and limited available beds prompting mental health assessment backlogs in Manitoba’s criminal justice system, field experts are recommending the province tap into federal rules which allow trained psychologists to shoulder some of the burden.
With staffing issues and limited available beds prompting mental health assessment backlogs in Manitoba’s criminal justice system, field experts are recommending the province tap into federal rules which allow trained psychologists to shoulder some of the burden. If there’s shortages in the mental health area, it’s going to impact the legal system, if there’s interplay between mental health and the law, clinical forensic psychologist Dr. Barry Cooper said in a phone call Wednesday from British Columbia.
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Three-year-old Jemimah Bundalian.
A Winnipeg man accused of abducting and killing his three-year-old daughter last week will undergo a psychiatric assessment for criminal responsibility.
A Winnipeg man accused of abducting and killing his three-year-old daughter last week will undergo a psychiatric assessment for criminal responsibility.
Frank Nausigimana, 28, made a virtual appearance before Judge Robert Heinrichs in mental health court Thursday afternoon. His lawyers requested the judge order a criminally not-responsible assessment a test used to determine whether an accused was aware of their alleged wrongdoing when an incident occurred.
Nausigimana was arrested July 7 and charged with first-degree murder, after allegedly abducting Jemimah Bundalian, 3, from her mother at knifepoint and stabbing the child inside a vehicle in the city’s North End.