Gruesome. Thomas Simich, Jr, a 46 year old culturally deaf man who cannot speak or hear at all, does not wear a hearing aid or cochlear implant and has history of mental illness while growing up with his deaf parents just upped and killed his deaf sister and deaf brother-in-law with a rifle blast to their bodies at close range. Thomas was living with his deaf parents at the time of the killing.
More postings on the brutal double homicide are found here, here, here, here and here.
Several years before the killing he began to act strange which lasted for several years. You have a mentally disturbed person living with his deaf parents. What caused Thomas to snap? What caused him to be mentally undisturbed? Was it because of the deaf family environment? Why make up stories of talking voices inside his head (as opposed to "talking hands") and blame it on his own psychosis for the killing? Was he a product of bad deaf schools with ASL only programs? Bad English programs? Bad advices from deaf counselors? Bad deaf teachers? Bad deaf parents who refused to speak or encourage Thomas to learn how to speak? Bad deaf parents who decided against use of hearing aids and AVT since after all he was hearing voices in his head which perhaps signal a longing desire to speak and listen? Bad medical industrial complex, the pharmaceutical companies and the medical community that influenced Thomas to take his medicine even though it probably didn't help? Maybe he was a product of a bad ASL environment? Maybe he was a product of deaf bullies while going to a deaf school growing up? Whatever it was, those silent murders took place in a town, ironically, called Freedom. Nothing funny about it.
Please calm down, folks.
And, oh, yeah, that crime took place eight years ago. He's already in jail in Pennsylvania for those murders. And, yeah, I made these assumed over-generalizations by blaming certain things on purpose just to make a point.
More postings on the brutal double homicide are found here, here, here, here and here.
Several years before the killing he began to act strange which lasted for several years. You have a mentally disturbed person living with his deaf parents. What caused Thomas to snap? What caused him to be mentally undisturbed? Was it because of the deaf family environment? Why make up stories of talking voices inside his head (as opposed to "talking hands") and blame it on his own psychosis for the killing? Was he a product of bad deaf schools with ASL only programs? Bad English programs? Bad advices from deaf counselors? Bad deaf teachers? Bad deaf parents who refused to speak or encourage Thomas to learn how to speak? Bad deaf parents who decided against use of hearing aids and AVT since after all he was hearing voices in his head which perhaps signal a longing desire to speak and listen? Bad medical industrial complex, the pharmaceutical companies and the medical community that influenced Thomas to take his medicine even though it probably didn't help? Maybe he was a product of a bad ASL environment? Maybe he was a product of deaf bullies while going to a deaf school growing up? Whatever it was, those silent murders took place in a town, ironically, called Freedom. Nothing funny about it.
Please calm down, folks.
And, oh, yeah, that crime took place eight years ago. He's already in jail in Pennsylvania for those murders. And, yeah, I made these assumed over-generalizations by blaming certain things on purpose just to make a point.