Sunday - June 16, 2013

The lunatics have taken over the asylum.  - or - Innocent by reason of amnesia

Drew’s post and comments on mental health fit right in with an article I read in the paper this morning.

Everybody that it accused of some sort of crime or misdemeanor manages to come up with some new illness that excuses their actions.
Well here’s another excuse for the books and this time I think the judge is the crazy for allowing this action to go forward.

At first read I was angry with the woman involved.  Knee jerk reaction.  In all truth it is the fault of the system that allows this.
A system that declares loud and clear and shouts it from a mountain top.

SCREW ME, SCREW ME, SCREW ME!

So you can’t really blame someone who takes them (the system) up on the offer.  I mean people, after all.  How many would turn down an offer like that?
This one sure didn’t. 

Thief sues police for refusing to make her a WPC… and claims amnesia made her forget her conviction

Background checks revealed that Rachida Sobhi had a criminal record

Was a cashier in department store and arrested for stealing make-up

Launched legal action as her amnesia made her forget her crime

She has not forgotten any other aspect of her life

By Martin Beckford

A woman who failed to reveal she was a convicted thief when she applied to become a police constable is suing Scotland Yard for discrimination.

Rachida Sobhi’s bid to become a WPC was turned down when background checks revealed she had a criminal record for stealing from a previous employer. But she has launched legal action against the force, claiming that she has amnesia that caused her to forget her crime – but no other aspect of her life.

It is believed that Ms Sobhi is the first person with amnesia to have been declared disabled for the purposes of an employment tribunal.

Police is ‘vigorously’ contesting her case, arguing that her condition is irrelevant as she would not be allowed to become a constable with her criminal record in any case.

The case, which has been described as ‘bizarre’, has raised fresh concerns about the compensation culture in the police. Earlier this year The Mail on Sunday revealed that PC Kelly Jones was suing a petrol station owner because she tripped over his kerb while investigating a possible break-in.

Ms Sobhi, who is already employed by the Met as a Police Community Support Officer, has had her case dismissed by an employment tribunal. But she won the right to a fresh hearing after a senior judge ruled she was indeed disabled when she filled in the application form.

As a PCSO – nicknamed ‘plastic police’ because of their lack of arrest powers – she can earn up to £28,539 ( $44,763.53 ) a year. She previously worked in Notting Hill in West London and continues to be employed by the Met as part of a ‘safer neighbourhoods team’ in Bromley, South East London, patrolling local streets with regular police officers and attending community events.

In August 2008 she applied to become a constable but when her fingerprints were taken as part of the process it emerged that she had a criminal record.

Ms Sobhi, who is of Moroccan background and thought to be in her early 40s, filed a claim in the London Central employment tribunal ‘complaining of discrimination on the ground of her sex, her sexual orientation, her religion or beliefs, her age and her disability’ against the Met and several individuals.

It was claimed that the Met treated her ‘less favourably’ because of her condition and failed to take ‘reasonable steps’ to accommodate her.

The Met apparently accepts she was suffering from ‘dissociative amnesia’ – a form of mental illness that involves gaps in memory – when she filled in the questionnaire.

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???  “Thought to be in her 40s”
Thought to be?  They don’t even know for sure?
What else do they not know about her?

The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

- Big Len Davinci , Tuscany, 16/6/2013

Posted by peiper     on 06/16/2013 at 10:52 AM   
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