True Tycoon Her Empire, Her Rules

Chapter 217

As the online community was abuzz with speculations and heated debates, the breaking news dropped like a bombshell, confirming their worst fears.

At that moment, the floodgates of profanity burst open among the netizens.

“Son of a gun.”

“Are you kidding me? He gets off scot–free because he’s ‘mentally ill“?”

“Hold on, if he’s mentally ill, shouldn’t he be locked up even more so?”

“He slaughtered nearly a hundred innocent animals. You mean to tell me that by proving him ‘mentally ill,‘ he might just walk and find new prey to butcher?”

“If this guy gets off because of some insanity plea, I’m seriously going to question our legal system.”

*Does nobody give a damn about our pets anymore? Since when is animal cruelty okay?”

“Reject insanity as a get–out–of–jail–free card.”

“Refuse to release murderers on the grounds of mental illness.”

The uproar online over the possibility of Lyndon’s release due to a mental illness was too much to ignore.

The Emerald Bay Police Department issued an urgent bulletin in response, covering three points.

First, their investigation confirmed that since childhood, Lyndon had brutally killed nearly a hundred cats, causing a serious social outcry.

Second, Lyndon had indeed sought a mental health evaluation, the results of which were still pending.

Third, the notion of legal immunity for mentally ill murderers was a misconception.

According to national law regarding the criminal responsibility of special individuals, if a pers mental illness caused harm while unable to recognize or control their behavior, and this was contumed through legal procedures, they could be exempt from criminal liability.

However, they would be placed under strict guardianship by relatives or guardians for treatment, and if necessary, subjected to compulsory medical intervention by the government.

intermittent mental disorders, stating that if they committed

control during the attacks, mental illness

was not a free pass from justice. At least, that was how Winnie saw

was diagnosed with a mental disorder, he was unlikely to escape the law

parents of the victims would never allow him to use mental illness as

Lyndon would likely be found guilty of

did

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times, it also

that his fate was being

report on the number of cats Lyndon had killed and thought of the tormented animal

address.

was going to help the spirits of the Ghost Cats find peace, but

together, Winnie couldn’t help but

curious about what I need his details for?”

a hint of amusement,

guy

and after telling Horace she could handle it herself, she

drove to the address Horace had provided a

anger of the Ghost Cats to an abandoned factory nearby. In a weed–choked

flashed in Winnie’s eyes as she looked at the broken bones that had been casually discarded and already gnawed clean by

out her Charms, drawing the spirits‘ anger from the bones. With a surge of her own energy, she solidified the formless resentment into several twisted

wronged you,” she whispered to the spectral felines, “Once you’ve had move on to your next

you enge,

incomplete Ghost Cat spirits howled in agony, their anger swelled and they rapidly drifted toward

with a calm smile. The officer

was about to lie down, his body suddenly convulsed

black shadows screamed at him, and then one by one,

torture before death. It

think of it, he always cut the cats‘ tongues first to keep them from bothering the