MOM WHO USED DAUGHTER'S IDENTITY TO MENTAL PLACE, NOT JAIL

                           

A 34-year-old woman in Wisconsin was ordered to serve up to three years in a mental institution for using her daughter's identity to redo her youth. She enrolled in a Wisconsin high school, pretending to be her daughter who was living out of state at the time, and tried out for the cheerleading squad.  Shish boom bah-ed her way right into a mental health facility. She attended one day of classes in August and practiced with the cheerleading squad using her 15-year-old daughter's identity. At the hearing, the judge said she agreed with a psychiatrist's recommendation and thought Brown needed "intensive counseling and treatment that she's not going to get at the Brown County Jail and would have a difficult time getting in the community."

Brown was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to an identity theft.

A forensic psychiatrist found that Brown suffered from bipolar and borderline personality disorder, which resulted in delusional mental illness. Of course. The psychiatrist found she was not able to appreciate the wrongfulness of her conduct and was unable to conform to society. 

Having had the pleasure of visitor status at mental health facilities, this placement seems fair enough. It is sort of prison-like, not having access to things like shoe strings and AWOL risk warning signs on the locked doors. Her peers are likely to be far more entertaining (in a sad way ... ) than the local con in jail. Three years, however, is a but a blink for fundamentally troubled folks. Just sayin'...

At the hearing, the daughter- wanna- be said "I'm not a bad person. I just made a mistake". Right. Not bad person. Just bad decisions. Right. Not really her fault. Brown said,"I just made a mistake."

Just.