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Horse with no Name

(33,956 posts)
Wed Sep 25, 2013, 10:43 PM Sep 2013

Untreated mental illness. We are going to have to do better as a country. :(

A Utah woman pleaded guilty to encouraging her husband to shoot their neighbor whom she claimed had "telepathically raped" her, authorities said.

Meloney Selleneit, 55, this week pleaded guilty, but mentally ill, to reduced charges of criminal solicitation and possession of a dangerous weapon for the 2011 shooting of Tony Pierce, the couple's neighbor in Centerville, Utah.
Her husband, Michael Selleneit, 55, was found guilty and mentally ill for his role in the October 2011 shooting.

Michael Selleneit is accused of firing two bullets into the back of Pierce's neck while the man was on a ladder doing yard work outside his trailer home, according to Paul Child, assistant chief for the Centerville Police. Pierce survived the shooting.

The Selleneits were known to police and for years had complained to authorities about two neighbors "telepathically raping" Meloney, Child said. He said there was no evidence of any physical contact between Pierce and Meloney Selleneit.


http://www.12newsnow.com/story/23532373/self-styled-telepathic-rape-victim-convicted-for-having-husband-shoot-man

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Untreated mental illness. We are going to have to do better as a country. :( (Original Post) Horse with no Name Sep 2013 OP
It sounds funny but then it gets dangerous. dkf Sep 2013 #1
"they complained for years" Horse with no Name Sep 2013 #2
 

dkf

(37,305 posts)
1. It sounds funny but then it gets dangerous.
Wed Sep 25, 2013, 11:54 PM
Sep 2013

We as a society are too used to making these types of things the butt of jokes. We need to take it more seriously.

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