00:00What kind of a monster would do this? How can they sleep at night? They cannot be human.
00:05These are some of the recurring questions as people, communities, and at times the country
00:11are forced to wrap their minds around gruesome acts which the average person can never see
00:16themselves committing. Some past instances would include the murders of Sean Luke, Amy Ann Matudo,
00:22Ashanti Riley, Andrea Barath, Angelo Tobias Plaza, and just last Saturday, 12-year-old Mercedes Lane,
00:29who was sexually assaulted and beaten to death. But what if we told you that there are people
00:34who feel little to no remorse, guilt, sympathy, empathy, and other such emotions which would
00:40be associated with humane behavior? They exist, but there is a gap in assessing and gathering the
00:46statistics. Psychiatrist Dr. Varma D'Alsing says it is important to identify the perpetrators of these
00:53crimes. So we have to look at the perpetrators. Why would they reach that level where life comes
00:58like nothing? They are willing to snuff our lives. So we have to see how could we identify these
01:02people? Do they have some sort of antisocial personality disorder which we call psychopathy?
01:07Or are they individuals who just figure that a life is cheap? They have seen things that people
01:12are dying, so they think, well, it's nothing big. So if you are seeing murders, you are seeing
01:17death, it comes part of you, well, you may not feel any sort of remorse in doing crimes like this.
01:22So this is a frightening thing that we have to know. How could we get these individuals?
01:25Some of these mental health problems can be identified in childhood and can include abusing
01:31pets and children as well as having a high pain tolerance. Antipersonal personality disorder,
01:37antisocial personality disorder, which we used to refer to psychopathy a long time. You could look
01:42at that child, tracking that child's behavior. Do they have a conduct disorder where they are destroying
01:46things, burning things, dislike authority? Their action as a child could give you an inclination if that
01:54individual will be an adult with antisocial personality disorder. Other things we have to tackle. Remember,
01:59it's the gruesomeness of the crime. So why be looking out for these things? When these people
02:04are caught, we need a quick pipeline to justice. Without that, there is a breakdown of social
02:10learning where potential perpetrators fail to comprehend possible consequences for their actions.
02:16And so it fuels another thought process. If they get another way, I could do it. So social learning
02:22theory actually says, look, they did something, they get caught quick. Now we have, the Chief Justice
02:27has more judges. So this is something we have to commend that. But again, you have to look now,
02:32the police, the DPP, do they have the staff now to carry these investigation, to secure evidence,
02:39to ensure that when this case is held, we have everything in place. Would it help if those persons
02:45go through mandatory psychiatric testing by professionals so that we could create statistics
02:54to know what kind of mental health issues we have coming up in our population pertaining to the types
02:59of crimes that we are seeing? Yes, definitely. Because you have crimes where you have the personality
03:04disorders. And sometimes the prison population is filled with those individuals who have no remorse,
03:09they don't care about the law. You also have individuals who may be using drugs and the drugs
03:14itself having to gain money to maintain a drug habit or the drugs itself disinhibiting them. So I go out
03:20and do a crime. I just drop in a car because I'm disinhibited. So you have the drug use and
03:24you also
03:24have the personality disorder. So therefore, statistics is always important. And there is no doubt in Dr.
03:30Diel Singh's mind pertaining to one thing. We definitely know before that the the personality
03:38disorders, the borderline personal disorders, sometimes the the antisocial personality disorders,
03:42they are more prone to criminal activities. If you identified earlier as children or now, you know,
03:47because you have to make that diagnosis after 18. But if you could diagnose that strange behavior,
03:51we could put watchdogs in place to monitor them, mentor them and try to win them. While some people may
03:58use
03:58marijuana recreationally, perhaps more now that it is decriminalized, the drug can have psychotic
04:05effects on some people. Dr. Diel Singh points to the dangers as it relates to use and children.
04:12What we have here is it's figures that came out from 2024, which shows that if there's an 11 increase
04:19risk when teenagers start to use marijuana for them turning psychotic. So it's an increase in those
04:26because their minds are now developing. They have the neural pathways there. So marijuana now can affect
04:30that and cause that psychopathy. Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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