It shouldn’t. That nurse is doing the public a favor.
Medical professionals save lives. Whether that’s performing surgery or helping law enforcement capture a violent criminal.
They can also recognize when someone has been a victim and may let the authorities know.
Just because they treat the guy without prejudice doesn’t mean they shouldn’t turn him in. He’s still a criminal, regardless of his need for heath care.
A California babysitter used her service, specifically created to work with special needs children, to prey on small defenseless girls as young as three and allowed her boyfriend to molest them.
Brittney Mae Lyon wept as she was sentenced to a century in prison on Thursday for sexually assaulting at least four girls she was entrusted to watch, creating a demonic system of child abuse with 31-year-old Samuel Cabrera.
In the US, hospital staff would likely not be allowed to report that really creepy dude was a patient.
Looks like it would be permissible, based on those guidelines.
Possibly. The guidelines further clarify your quote
“A hospital may disclose patient information to law enforcement authorities if the hospital believes, in good faith, that the disclosure is necessary for identification or apprehension of an individual. The hospital’s good faith belief may be based on one of the following: If it appears from all circumstances that the individual escaped from a correctional institution or from lawful custody; or If an individual makes a statement admitting participation in a violent crime that the hospital reasonably believes may have caused serious physical harm to the victim. In this case, the hospital may release only the individual’s statement and those items of information that may be disclosed when assisting in the identification and location of a person, as discussed above.”
I think really creepy dude was wanted but not escaped.
I believe in legally ambiguous but obvious public safety cases, someone may anonymously drop a dime.
Edit; Lawful custody could equate with wanted
It doesn’t say it must “be based on one of the following”, so reporting the patient as in the case of the fugitive wanted rapist might have been OK.
Hard to believe current guidelines would prevent another Richard Speck from being reported to authorities.
Agree. What I’ve seen is each instance is unique, and what happens depends on the crime or the potential further harm to society.
Awww. Poor baby.
She and her boyfriend, who received 8 life terms, are fucking monsters. Good lord almighty, why are some people so evil.
Once you think only of yourself, anything is easy.
Not quite on the level of evil as others in this thread, but still evil nonetheless.
A school district in Indiana had to close its schools Tuesday after someone stole the catalytic converters from many of its buses.
According to a Facebook post from Michigan City Area Schools, transportation staff discovered early Tuesday morning that the buses had been vandalized.
The district said it was forced to switch from in-person learning to online learning due to the thefts.
According to WNDU, about 20 buses were vandalized.
Having had my catalytic converter stolen, resulting in USAA totalling my car, I would say that the perpetrators are indeed evil.
(I bought my car back, and am still driving it – with a brand new cat. I had to pay a fairly high price for it, because USAA said, ‘Well, there’s nothing wrong with it.’ Total the car because a new cat costs more than the car is worth, then sell it back to me at more than a totalled car should be worth because, except for the missing cat, there’s nothing wrong with it. 
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I’ve had to replace a catalytic converter (not due to theft) and they ain’t cheap!
Cost more than the vehicle’s Blue Book value but I needed a vehicle and buying a new cat was still cheaper than buying a reliable used car. So I winced, paid for the repair, and I am still driving it years later.
From @Railer13’s cite of FoxTV …
Probably not “vandalized” which means damaged or destroyed for recreation or revenge. More likely they were burgled, as in stolen for material gain. You can sell a cat for a bunch of money on the stolen parts market. Twenty of them would be a nice night’s haul.
We have had them stolen from a couple of the vehicles at work. One was a Nissan Titan. Has multiple Cats on it. Five maybe? I can’t remember what it cost, but it was a LOT.
You get up in the morning, start the vehicle, and its as loud as a WWII fighter. Has to be towed to the shop. I hate thieves.
Fair enough, but I hate the auto industry. The cat was a non-solution to relying on dirty and inefficient engine design based on century-old principles, for which there easily could have been better alternatives. The only benefit to catalytic perverters was in weaning us off the lead.
I mean, that’s a pretty huge benefit, wouldn’t you say?
We had a rash of that years ago during the pandemic. People were taking advantage of there being hardly anyone around. We park in a multistory parking garage attached to our building with a skybridge, and there was a whole rash of thefts.
I was still driving a work van back then and was afraid it would get hit but that never happened.
We are now back to maiming those convicted of crimes.
A Louisiana man who admitted to trying to rape a 7-year-old in 2023 has agreed to be physically and chemically castrated, per authorities.
Thomas Allen McCartney, 37, pleaded guilty on Monday, Aug. 18, in Vernon Parish, La., to the first-degree attempted rape of a child under the age of 13, Vernon Parish District Attorney Terry Lambright confirms to PEOPLE.
As part of the plea agreement, McCartney agreed to submit to castration, per the DA’s office. He will also serve 40 years with the Louisiana Department of Corrections.
Yes, his crime was appalling. But so is mutilation as a sentence. This abhorrent sentencing agreement cannot be constitutional.