Court hears people in naked kidnapping case had shared psychotic disorder
LEDUC, Alta. — An Alberta judge says three people involved in a bizarre kidnapping engaged in pseudo medical science while discussing the state of the world before they succumbed to a rare, shared but brief psychotic disorder.
Provincial court Judge Jacqueline Schaffter said the trio didn’t intend to harm a neighbouring family they kidnapped last year. They just wanted to save them from the end of the world.
“It will always remain difficult for us to fully understand,” Schaffter told a Leduc courtroom Thursday.
“The accused all believed on the day in question that Armageddon had arrived.”