A 73-year-old Detroit man is behind bars for allegedly attacking a 7-year-old girl with a knife in a city park full of children, slashing her throat in an incident that ended with the child racing home to her mother for help, and the suspect in handcuffs.

“He just like came out of nowhere and just like (pulled) the knife on me,” the girl told Fox 2 News as she sat on a porch step this week with gauze around her neck, explaining how a day at the park with her grandmother turned into a day of horror.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    According to the article the man has been having mental health problems. That’s ok though because it seems the wife has been addressing it with the power of Facebook prayer requests. Clearly it’s been working well.

    Sarcasm aside, what are people with mental illness but no access to adequate healthcare expected to do? I’m assuming they couldn’t afford medical care but, given that they are in their seventies, living in America, and asking for prayers on Facebook, I think my assumption is correct.

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      13 hours ago

      They’re expected to do nothing that bothers or burdens anyone else and then die, as far as I can tell. They can just skip to the last part if they want, as long as it still fulfills the requirements of the first part.