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OCD and the Law – Part 1
Recently, there have been a number of legal cases in which criminal defense lawyers have claimed that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) was the cause of their client’s illegal behavior. This is part one of a three part series that examines these cases.
In March 2009, the Edinburgh Evening News of Scotland reported the case of Iain McKinlay, a father of three who claimed that the huge amount of child pornography that he had amassed on his computers was a result of his suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). McKinlay was caught after he used his personal credit card to access child pornography web sites. When the local police raided his home in April 2008, they found 3,557 illegal pictures on two separate computers. › Continue reading
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