[quote=kcal09]
How is jail time going to help her if she has a mental disorder? She should be institutionalized in a psychiatric facility where she can get professional help and kept away from the public.[/quote]

As I said in an earlier post – it seems that she knew what she was doing was wrong. If she wasn’t willing to voluntarily get help, how successful do you think a government entity is going to be in forcing help upon her (for example, in a state run mental hospital). She was a well paid agent living in La Jolla. Are you suggesting that she didn’t understand that therapy was available around just about any corner? And I agree that she sounds like a sadist, a condition which almost never responds to therapy.

Like it or not – there are two dual goals to the penal system. The first is retribution or punishment. The second is rehabilitation. If you eliminate the first, the only deterrent you have is threatening people with therapy. Hmm.