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Child killer's marijuana link
Angela Kamper | NEWS.com.au | 03/25/2005

SMOKING marijuana drove Timothy Kosowicz mad and he strangled an angelic little girl - but a judge blames the failings of our society.

(BuzzNote: A man is a dangerous psychotic and he smokes marijuana. Where's the logical inference that the marijuana caused his psychosis?)

A court heard yesterday that Kosowicz, 23, had used the drug since he was 12 and for the past five years was in and out of hospital with "voices in his head".

Despite admitting killing Chloe Hoson, 5, in a western Sydney caravan park, the Supreme Court yesterday found him not guilty by reason of mental illness.

Yesterday's finding reopened the debate about the mental damage caused by long-term cannabis use.

The court heard Kosowicz strangled, sexually assaulted then dumped Chloe's body in a creek in November 2003 after she knocked over a "bowl of pot" in his cabin.

"This seems to be yet another example of the link between cannabis use and mental illness, a link which from my judicial experience and reading I regard as well-established," acting Justice David Patten said.

(BuzzNote: "This seems to be yet another example of the link between negligent parents and a negligent mental health system, a link which from my judicial experience and reading I regard as well-established," acting Justice Buzzby McDope said.)

Doctors diagnosed Kosowicz as a dangerous psychotic drug-user in December 1999 but he was frequently discharged from hospitals.

"I find it difficult to escape the conclusion that the community failed Chloe," Justice Patten said.

"In spite of all this, he was repeatedly let back into the community after short periods of treatment.

"The outcome was catastrophic in the extreme."

Outside court, Chloe's grieving father Michael Hoson said: "I feel sorry for the families this is going to continue to happen to in future if something doesn't change."

Chloe's mother Karina Louise Beharrell said she "deals with the loss of her daughter every day".

Chloe was living with her parents and two younger siblings in a mobile home at Lansdowne Caravan Park on the Hume Highway, Lansvale, on November 7, 2003, when she went missing. At 8am the following day her body was found naked from the waist down on the bank of a creek about 200m from her home.

The court heard Kosowicz "lost the plot" when Chloe spilt his marijuana while playing at his cabin.

The court heard that Kosowicz told police after his arrest that Chloe came to his cabin about 1.30pm asking if she could play with his cat.

(BuzzNote: Why was Chloe in a position to go calling on a dangerous psychotic? Where were her parents?)

"I gave her some stickers and said she could have them and as she was cutting them up she spilt my pot on the ground," he told police in a taped interview. "At that I lost the plot, I dunno what ... I blacked out and the next thing you know ... I was strangling her in my bedroom."

Justice Patten was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt Kosowicz had intentionally killed Chloe. But on one count of murder and one of interfering with her dead body he found him not guilty due to mental illness.

He ordered Kosowicz be held at Long Bay prison hospital until the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal deemed him no longer a danger.

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Burninbrooke

Hmm wonder how long it will take him to get out again. That poor poor girl, this is obviously a case of negligent parents, I can't imagine my five year old daughter being alone outside, let alone free to go to whoever's house she wants, I wouldn't be suprised if these parents allowed the man to watch her. Sickening, I swear procreating should be a privilage not a right.

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Puffer

I wonder how many psychopathic killers eat mashed potatoes but don't smoke pot. Do you think . . .?

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cb007sax

Ignorance runs ramped. If there was a link, 90% of the people on here would have committed murders already or be locked up in looney bins. Get a ****ing clue people. Don't let your children GO TO PEOPLE'S HOUSES ALONE THAT YOU DON'T KNOW.

smoking_joe_lee

The old "mashed potato killer" theory sounds plausable, but in this case fails to hold gravy. Obviously the kitty made him do it...

A clear case of cause and effect. He owned a cat. He killed. What?!? Your'e not buying it? It's WAY bettter than the marijuana excuse; slightly better, though inferior as a side dish, to the smashed spuds...

This reminds me of the "twinkie defence" put up by the killer of the mayor and supervisor of San Fransisco. Too much junk food made him kill! No personal respondibility anymore...

* Hummm, sounds too much like a beer ad...

 

Mamabudz

Why is it always this Reefer Madness crap?

In my dreams....

...Some day we will hear a story about how marijuana use by ER doctors keeps them able to deal with the continuing trauma work they do for 24-48 hour stints -- effectively, professionally, capably.

Yup boys and girls ... them ER docs? many of them smoke that ol' reefer to counter the jitters that too much coffee can cause -- keeps them calmed yet on their toes in a nice hypomanic clear minded condition...but we better keep it to ourselves until the Establishment can handle this little nuance. After all, they are only doctors, what would they know about drugs, ahem, pharmacology?

Poochie Budz by the way agrees...it was the cat!

jaman

this is a lame duck .

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