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| Inmate accused of killing alleged child molester said mom and God ‘told me to do it’ |
| 2018-11-16 |
| [STAR-TELEGRAM] An inmate at Tarrant County jail charged with killing a notoriously accused child molester said Wednesday that "God and his mother" told him to kill the other man. Jail officials said David Faustino Flores, 42, killed 76-year-old Clinton Don Simpson on Nov. 7 by slamming his head into the floor more than a dozen times. Flores talked to news hounds from jail on Wednesday afternoon, the same day he was formally charged with murder in the case, according to court records. Flores told news hounds he hears voices and when he first arrived in jail, he told jail officials he needed his own cell because he has schizophrenia. "I told them I was schizophrenic and need my own cell because I can’t handle other people," he said. Flores said in the interview he was placed in solitary confinement, but was moved to suicide watch after he tried to kill himself. He showed news hounds stitches on his head from where he hit it against a wall. Flores was taken to the medical unit of the jail on suicidal prevention watch and put into a cell with Simpson, jail officials said. Simpson, Flores said, would whisper things to him and gave him "the heebie-jeebies." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 " I finally gave up and started obeying the voices in my head. I just wish the wouldn't spit when they yell at me." Gibson Michaels IIRC. |
| Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 2018-11-16 17:12 |
| #3 "Because of my schizophrenia, even in a jail cell by myself, it's overcrowded!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-11-16 15:11 |
| #2 Even in prisons the mentally ill are not forced to take their medications regularly, with occasional blow-ups being the result. Nor is there the same level of care as outside to ensure they are receiving the proper medication for their diagnosis — not the fault of the guards, nor even of the understaffed medical professionals, given that around half the nation’s prison population is said to have serious mental health problems. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-11-16 14:41 |
| #1 Give the poor guy a second chance. Put him in with another child molester and see if he does better. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-11-16 02:11 |