[Livia]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

True.

Also we do not need to be Doctors,(although I have 4 in my own Family), to look at the state of the place and see something was badly wrong here with this person.

I know if I saw anyone living that way I would instantly think they had a mental issue if not an illness.
Drinking alcohol too would blot out the issue and problem to the person drinking.

Alcohol is relatively cheap to buy and will more than likely send you off to sleep in the end, so the person is not then thinking about anything needing doing or realising anything that should be done.

Working in law,I have to try to assess what makes people do the things they do,try to find a reason for behaviour and identify any problems too.
She had to be punished for the ill treatment and neglect of the animals but maybe jail will not address the underlying issues there may be.

It is horrendous as a case,no doubt as to that.

Joey, If you want to refer to my post, please do so and stop answering other people's and covering points I've made.

I also work in the law as you know, and have done for some time. Do you honestly think ANY lawyer representing her would have allowed the case to go forward without her mental illness being taken into account? If it was taken into account, it was clearly not severe enough to stop a custodial sentence... or there was no illness.