Comments on: S.C. Court Rejects Killer's Zoloft Defense

Conviction Upheld Of Teen Who Blamed Prescription For Murdering Grandparents

[dmotte]

Fry the little ***.

[gretsy]

I have been taking Zoloft 300mg. each day. I've never had thoughts of hurting anyone. When I had thought of suicide I knew my brain chemicals were out of whack. Not everyone responds to this drug but some of need it on a daily basis. Stop blaming the drug for a persons own wrong thoughts and deeds!!!!!

[gmond]

Pre-meditation by medication. Yeah, right.

[sjw1253]

I am so tired of hearing stories of children being treated as adults in the criminal justice system.

Our society is so contradictory in putting young boys (especially) in adult jails.

Murder is a terrible crime - but for a child to have committed the crime should be treated as such. Our juvenile justice system is so ill equipped and so wrong in treating children as adults.

They clearly are hindered by many laws in participating in adult activities due to the fact that they do not have the "life experience" and "maturity" in decision making.

Clearly the kid knows what they did wrong. I do believe that Zoloft and any other "emotion calming" medications can aid in a person of any age making poor decisions. Particularly a child taking such a "numbing" medication has the greatest potential of giving a child the added push to do something they know is wrong as they do not worry about the consequences.

It is clearly time for our juvenile justice system to become stronger and to learn how to treat children when they make bad decisions - to not only punish them but to teach them what they have not learned from their parents.

[toolmangler-2009]

If the company that makes Zoloft wanted to clear up this mess, they would start a clinical trial on this killer and others that have a similar physiological makeup as him. A long term study might be possible as it doesn't look as though he is going anywhere. Who knows what they might learn.

[makeup101]

I went through a period in my life where I did my fair share of illegal drugs - all kinds. Within the past two years, I've had several heath problems that my healthcare professional suggested antidepressants for, one of them being zoloft. The illegal "trips" I had can't hold a candle to the effects that zoloft had on me. I thought I was loosing my mind. Although I begged my doctor to take me of of the medication, she would not. She said the side effects would most likely subside. They did not they grew worse. If I, a stong-minded adult, cannot handle the mind altering effects of a medication like this (and it was a very low dose) imagine what it could do to a child. Think before you judge. Unless you've been there, you really don't know.

[gretsy]

I have been taking Zoloft 300mg. each day. I've never had thoughts of hurting anyone. When I had thought of suicide I knew my brain chemicals were out of whack. Not everyone responds to this drug but some of need it on a daily basis. Stop blaming the drug for a persons own wrong thoughts and deeds!!!!!

[afinefolly]

' ... hiking thru the garden takes a few minutes, hiking thru the virtual version of the garden taxes a few seconds ... one day hiking thru the real garden will take a few seconds instead of a few minutes ... except, if you've a garden and a satelite camera, you can take a thousand photos of your garden, and when your kid hikes through the garden: the kid swallows the garden and pukes it back up and your one acre garden becomes a wholly different and new square mile garden and you have to retake all the *** photos ... '

[hologram5]

I had taken Zoloft for two weeks and had to get off of it as I felt that I had been slipped a hit of LSD. And yes, I speak from experience. I was seeing tracers, feeling very weird and not liking it at all. These children should not be on anti-depressants. There has to be another way. This is not normal nor is it good to be medicating children. There must be developemental issues with perscribing these overly strong medications to children. My opinion now, I don't think this should be done.

[russ1985]

It's like the twinkie defense of the 70s. "Oh, I ate like 12 twinkies. Let's go kill the Mayor" If you can point to any resonable outside influence, then it can be your out. But the numbers don't bear it out. millions of people take it and don't try to off loved ones.