Court orders psychiatric treatment for Russian doomsday prophet
Saturday August 9, 2008 Pyotr Kuznetsov, True Russian Orthodox Church
A court in central Russia ordered on Friday the leader of a doomsday sect that recently spent more than six months underground waiting for the apocalypse to undergo compulsory psychiatric treatment.
“The defendant will not be responsible for the crimes he committed when mentally ill. The court has ordered compulsory treatment for him in a psychiatric ward,” Judge Maria Smyslova said.