As of: February 8, 2024, 4:45 p.m
By: Carl Christian Eick
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An oppressive picture: A mentally ill homeless woman has been sleeping outdoors in Wolfratshausen for weeks.
She refuses help from Caritas employee Ines Lobenstein.
According to a specialist medical certificate, the woman should be cared for in a psychiatric facility.
But there is no reason for accommodation at the Agatharied Specialist Clinic.
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Her father is completely desperate: a homeless woman has been sleeping outside in Wolfratshausen for weeks.
According to a medical report, she is mentally ill, but a specialist clinic sees no reason for her to be admitted.
Wolfratshausen – A human drama has been taking place in the middle of Wolfratshausen for weeks.
At the center: a 47-year-old obviously helpless woman.
Ines Lobenstein from Caritas Homeless Aid has been concerned with the tragic case for around two months now.
Lobenstein is afraid “that the woman will freeze to death.”
Wolfratshausen's police chief Andreas Czerweny also touches on the fate of the skinny woman with disheveled hair who wanders aimlessly through the rafting town and spends the night outdoors even when the temperature is double-digit below zero.
“The police did everything in their power,” said the First Chief Inspector when asked by our newspaper.
The homeless need to be helped sustainably and, above all, quickly elsewhere.
“You let a person die”: Human drama in the middle of a city in Upper Bavaria
Petra Müller (name changed) sits huddled in the old town almost every day.
Dressed only in a thin jacket, often without shoes.
Many business people and passers-by want to do something good for her.
Be it in the form of a warm meal, a cup of coffee or a thick blanket that you give her.
But according to a specialist medical certificate, the severely malnourished homeless woman is chronically schizophrenic and, according to Caritas employee Lobenstein, is unable to accept help due to her medical condition.
Müller often reacts angrily and insults people who are not indifferent to her.
Lobenstein tried again on Thursday.
Without success.
Barefoot and talking to himself, Müller continues to wander through Marktstrasse.
Only through very prompt placement in a closed psychiatric facility can the acute danger be defused.
Excerpt from the specialist medical report
The homeless woman, who is under legal care, originally lived in Witten in North Rhine-Westphalia.
She ran away from there because she had the delusion that she was going to be poisoned in her apartment.
At the beginning of November last year she appeared in the rafting town - and has been keeping the police busy ever since.
Patrols picked up Müller several times and the Wolfratshausen district court and the health department in Bad Tölz were informed.
Just a few days ago, eyewitnesses called the emergency number because the 47-year-old was sitting apathetically in St. Andrew's Church.
According to information from our newspaper, the district court issued a detention order and the police took the 47-year-old to Agatharied Hospital.
A renowned psychiatrist from the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district had previously stated in a specialist medical certificate that was available to our editorial team: “Only through very prompt placement in a closed psychiatric facility can the acute risk be defused.” The duration of the placement must be determined be decided “during the course of psychiatric treatment”.
The expert assumes an “acute danger situation”.
The psychiatrist also pointed out in his report: Due to the “profound chronic illness” in combination with “precarious weather conditions and “escalated psychotic symptoms”, an “acute risk situation” could be assumed.
Malnutrition, hardly any protection from wind and weather and a lack of somewhere to sleep “form an acute, life-threatening constellation”.
The hope of everyone involved that the woman would be helped in the Agatharied specialist clinic, where she was taken by a patrol on February 2nd, was not fulfilled.
The clinic stated on Tuesday of this week that there was no evidence of self-endangerment, so there was no reason for him to be placed in custody.
Petra Müller was released again.
“Into homelessness, simply onto the streets,” Lobenstein states in disbelief.
The hospital, which belongs to the non-profit kbo-Lech-Mangfall-Kliniken GmbH, remained silent when asked by our newspaper.
The reason: data protection.
Father is desperate: “She has no free will”
Petra Müller's father, 84 years old, lives in Hesse.
He is desperate because of the specialist clinic's decision and fears for his daughter's life day and night.
“She doesn’t have free will,” he says.
The 47-year-old is dominated by her delusions - "and is unable to assess the dangers she exposes herself to when she lives on the street in the cold, wet and dirty."
Placement in a psychiatric facility would be a chance for his daughter to “survive”.
“I see no other way out,” said the 84-year-old.
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A person is now being allowed to die on the street because – supposedly – his personal freedom is being protected.
The 47-year-old's father
Caritas employee Lobenstein has the same opinion.
She doesn't give up hope that the drama will take a good turn: "Someone has to have mercy on this woman." For Chief Inspector Czerweny, everything has to be in order because of her job.
But between the certificates, placement decisions, correctional assistance and protocol notes, one thing should not be forgotten: “It’s about a human being.”
The compassion of people touches the father very much
For an 84-year-old in Hesse, it's specifically about his daughter.
The compassion of the people of Wolfratshausen - especially Ines Lobenstein - touches him very much.
But according to the specialist clinic, his daughter can decide for herself about her life - "and a healthy person can decide to live on the street, that's our law."
The clear specialist medical certificate was apparently ignored.
The father states bitterly: “A person is now being left to die on the street because – supposedly – his personal freedom is being protected.” (cce)
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