SAN FRANCISCO, Stabbed girl's family sues over parole gaffe

[Mugu]

Anastasia Ustinova, Chronicle Staff Writer

The family of a teenage girl who was stabbed and nearly killed last year by a high-security inmate wrongly paroled from San Quentin State Prison has sued the state.

The suit claims Scott Thomas, who was suffering from bipolar disorder, was never treated during his months in solitary confinement in San Quentin. After he was released without supervision on May 18, 2007, Thomas randomly stabbed Loren Schaller, now 16, and 60-year-old Kermit Kubitz at a bakery near Miraloma Park.

Thomas, 26, who was sent to prison nine times for nonviolent crimes between 2000 and 2007, has been declared mentally incompetent to stand trial and is incarcerated at Atascadero State Hospital.

"It's quite clear that there were numerous errors made by the state; they never contacted us to make it right," said attorney Andrew Schwartz of Walnut Creek law firm Casper, Meadows, Schwartz & Cook, who filed the claim. "I hope that the state takes the high road and tries to resolve the case."


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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/28/BALBVQVV0.DTL

[ORDagnabbit]

1. the guy was violent and should have been put down already....

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/11/01/MNVTT3GQQ.DTL&type=printable

Scott Thomas, 26, a career criminal who was designated "high control" because he had battered a guard at another prison, was paroled from San Quentin on the evening of Friday, May 18. The next day, he repeatedly stabbed teenager Loren Schaller in a neighborhood bakery in San Francisco and also stabbed a 60-year-old man who came to her rescue.

"People say to me, 'At least the guy is locked away forever,' and I say, 'Well, who knows? Mistakes were made before. I don't know if he's locked away forever. He was accidentally released before. Who's to say he won't be accidentally released again?' "


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you put them down like mad dogs and spend the money that would have been spent on his lifelong incarceration on children programs to prevent wastes of carbon like this from happening in the first place

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. "put him down"???

Good grief, what a gross thing to say.

[tkmorris]

3. Interesting approach to mental disorders you have

Quite the rugged individualist I expect.

[knight_of_the_star]

4. Wow

Talk about a horrific example of falling through the cracks, he never should have been in solitary to begin with, he should have been sent to the psych ward.