Item Num 4:
PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSESSMENT
(FORENSIC) with errors.
Dated: February 5, 2015
Author: Allison Jones
Prepared for Court files
C-14-6966 at Barrie and C-14-3928 at Orillia
I.
DEMOGRAPHIC
INFORMATION:
Age: 37
Citizenship:
Canadian
Ethnicity/Culture:
Source of
Income:
Capacity: Mr.
Helmerichs is capable of consenting to treatment, in managing his finances and
in the collection and use of his personal health information.
Marital
status: Common Law.
Next to Kin:
Fan-Xiu Hsiao (common-law wife)
Ingrid Helmerichs (mother)
II.
Confidentiality
This writer
met with Mr. Helmerichs for the purposes of completing this Psychosocial
Assessment. He was informed that participation in the interview was voluntary.
He was further informed of the limits to confidentiality, including that
information gathered would be shared with the multidisciplinary team and could
be used in the court report. Mr. Helmerichs expressed a desire to have his
interview captured in an audio recording however due to the lack of policy around
storage and transcription of interviews at this facility Mr. Helmerichs’
request could not be accommodated. Mr. Helmerichs did however agree to
participate in this interview through written responses to this writer’s
questions on a Word Document. Mr. Helmerichs was provided a copy of his
responses to this writer and another copy was placed on his clinical file. Mr.
Helmerichs noted on his document that he has posted his responses at www.renehelmerichs3.blogspot.ca
III.
SOURCES
OF INFORMATION:
l
Telephone
interview with Ingrid Helmerichs on January 29, 2015.
l
Psychosocial
Assessment by Nancy Burns, MSW, RSW from Ontario Shores Centre for Mental
Health Sciences dated October 4, 2013.
l
Crown
Brief re: statement by Tamara Williamson, Probation and Parole Officer, date
July 31, 2014.
l
Type
written psychosocial interview responses from Mr. Helmerichs dated February 2,
2015.
l
Consultation
Report by Dr. Anjana Chawla, MD dated September 25, 2012.
l
Arrest
Report by D. Henderson dated September 3, 2012.
l
General
Occurrence Report by S. Gillies of the Barrie Police Service dated December 8,
2014.
l
Discharge
Summary by by Dr. K. DeFreitas, MD, FRCPC dated October 8, 2013.
l
Central
North Correctional Centre; Form 1 signed December 5, 2013; January 21 & 31;
February 6, 20 & 26; March 13 & 27; May 1; June 10, 26 & 30 (all
2014).
l
Inpatient
Facesheet from Waypoint Centre by Dr. J. Van Impe dated July 1, 2014
l
Admission
Record and Discharge Summary by Dr. R. Shahid, MD, FRCPC dated July 2, 2014.
l
Consultation
Note from Dr. L. Ali, MD, MRCPC, DPM, FRCPC dated September 4, 2012.
IV.
CIRCUMSTANCES
LEADING TO ADMISSION:
1.
Mr.
Helmerichs was admitted to this facility for a period of 30 days pursuant to a
Form 48 Assessment Order of the Court dated December 29, 2014 and signed by
Justice W. G. Beatty, to determine whether he suffered from a mental disorder
so as to exempt him from criminal responsibility by virtue of section 16(1) of
the Criminal Code on the charge of Breach Probation.
2.
While
at this facility Mr. Helmerichs attended court and a second Form 48 Assessment
Order of the Court was made on January 19, 2015 signed by Justice C.
Mathias-McDonald for a period of 30 days to determine if he suffered from a
mental disorder so as to exempt him from criminal responsibility by virtue of
section 16(1) of the Criminal Code on the charges Criminal Harassment, Section
264(2)(b), Fail to Comply Probation, Section 733.1(1) CCC and Fail to Comply
Undertaking, Section 145(3) CCC.
V.
INDEX
OFFENCE:
1.
Breach
of Probation
Mr. Helmerichs
is accused of failing to comply with his probation order to not associate,
contact or hold any communication directly or indirectly with [Natalie Yewchyn].
According to the statement by Tamara Williamson, Mr. Helmerichs presented at her
office on July 9, 2014 for a scheduled appointment and voluntarily presented
her with a document which he requested she photocopy and place on file. Ms.
Williamson stated that Mr. Helmerichs informed her that the document was 28
pages of his recent blog posts at www.renehelmerichs3.blogspot.ca.
Ms. Williamson noted that Mr. Helmerichs had mentioned the name of the
individual with whom he is to have no contact 5 times in the document, contrary
to his probation orders.
2.
Criminal
Harassment
Mr. Helmerichs
is accused of becoming infatuated with a member of the Community Christ
Congregation whom he met while attending the church. Mr. Helmerichs is accused
of leaving flowers and a book at the residence of the victim (she had not given
her address to him) and this made her fearful. Mr. Helmerichs continued to
phone and contact the victim through email despite being told that she did not
wish for him to contact her. The content of emails included:
Jan. 8 SHALL
BE THE DAY RENE HELMERICHS DOES UNDER+STAND THE BOOK OF LIFE happily titled the
Choice Amidst The Argument In The Business Of Being Happy: A Course In Miracles
And Ode To My Love Born On Christmas 4-butt 111 of The Following:
I.
[Natalie
Yewchyn] shall be worldwide known as The Central Focus For the Antichrist Satan
To Use As Channel:
II.
[Natalie
Yewchyn] shall have indemnified The Criminal Justice System Of the Whole Of
Canada to be fraudulent; and,
III.
[Natalie
Yewchyn] shall have decided upon Her Choice between a life of purgatory in the
publicly fund[d] prison system as Political Canada begins to attempt to make
public amends following The Play Of All Time OR a life of purgatory with
regular cock-sucking for any dick Rene chooses, WHEN He (H imp=lies [Natalie Yewchyn]
& Rene can continue to argue about their relative constructs for
greatest-of-all “He” so long as [Natalie Yewchyn] can bear) chooses, with free
physical services offered the father (miniscule denotes specifically the
physical-temporal vehicle for {} projection) of any of her (corpus Born On
Christmas) children whenever He (again, She can argue with any of Her sperm
donors over this, so long as she can bear) chooses Or spend quite the lengthy
time in jail for accompanying charges solidly presented all throughout all
writings having been thought so strange at first now REAL-ized to be a
worstcase/bestcase scenario only possibly in a place called HELL.
3.
Breach
of Undertaking
Mr. Helmerichs
is accused of failing to abstain from communicating or associating directly or
indirectly with [Natalie Yewchyn] contrary to the conditions of his undertaking
entered into before Justice of the Peace C. Smythe on July 22, 2014.
VI.
SELF
REPORT:
As stated on
page 19 and 20 in Mr. Helmerichs’ written response to the question “Please give
your account of the index offence.”:
“There was no
criminal offence. A criminal offence constitutes, at a minimum, intent for harm
to any part of self, self as inclusive of the greater self-concept for self as
a member in, for, of, and the society as one whole. Loss of employment cannot
be included in the definition of harm for there to remain hope of
ever-bettering to society, ever-increase to the ability of self within society,
and ever-increase to self as employed individual. Since there was at no point
intent for harm and continual offer of partnership extended to all parties
before any affected party experienced defame to their special self-concept, The
Golden Rule at the core of the spirit of the law established as the supreme law
for Canada via Constitution subsection 52(1) same-applied has at all times been
continually adhered.
The
administration of justice for Ontario is, with the larger context of any
alleged index offence against Rene Helmerichs, revealed to have irreparably
screwed Up, so to speak, in a way not reparable except with New Goal Day
beginning to acknowledge Mr. Helmerichs AS The Bridegroom TO The Province Of
Ontario. The right of personal religion ensure each can live in false pretense
of whatever special local workplace policy any may momentarily desire without
also personally respecting The Golden Rule until Transparency (“the wholey
ghost”) requires accountability for inaction of the intrinsic personal-social
responsibility, that is, Self-awakening always without real harm.”
VII.
COLLATERAL
INFORMATION:
Mrs.
Helmerichs reported that prior to his index offence her son worked afternoon
shift at Georgian College and she saw very little of him. Mr. Helmerichs would
come home after work and write his book late into the night and would often
bring his son to school late for kindergarten as he had overslept. It was
around this time that Mrs. Helmerichs believes her son was writing the emails
to the victim when he awake all night.
VIII.
SOCIAL
SITUATION:
Mr. Helmerichs
was living with his mother in Barrie at the time of his arrest in September
2012. Prior to his admission to this facility Mr. Helmerichs had an apartment
in Orillia, Ontario.
IX.
FAMILY:
Mr. Helmerichs
was born to Ingrid and Rolf Helmerichs in Germany and moved to Canada with his
family when he was four and a half years old. His sister, Sylvia, is three
years younger and lives in Orillia. Mr. Helmerichs reportedly had a close
relationship with his sister prior to his hospitalization.
The family
initially settled in Scarborough and then moved to Barrie.
X.
CHILDHOOD:
Mrs.
Helmerichs reported that Mr. Helmerichs was a good child and that he was very
helpful with chores and shoveling snow; he had friends with whom he played
outside. Mr. Helmerichs was reported to have adjusted to the move to Canada
from Germany with some difficulty which he quickly overcome. Mr. Helmerichs’
parents divorced when he was 14 years old.
XI.
EDUCATION:
Mr. Helmerichs
was reportedly very good in school and he “fast tracked” through high school.
Mrs. Helmerichs noted that Mr. Helmerichs had no problems during school.
After
graduating high school, Mr. Helmerichs attended university for 1 ½ years before he dropped the program. Mr.
Helmerichs then attended Seneca College and obtained his pilot’s license. Mr.
Helmerichs had planned to work toward his commercial license but abandoned his
plan after some time. Mr. Helmerichs then worked toward getting his truck
driving license.
Mr. Helmerichs
reportedly completed a Masters of Education at the University of Wisconsin in
2002; he reportedly applied for a PhD program in Calgary but was not successful
in being accepted.
XII.
EMPLOYMENT:
Mr. Helmerichs
worked in Taiwan teaching English as a second language. He also worked at
Georgian College teaching Communications.
XIII.
RELATIONSHIP
HISTORY:
Mr. Helmerichs
was married to Brigitta (1999), the couple separated in 2002 and divorced in
2005. He had a common law relationship with Christina from which he had his son
Sunjay while the couple lived in Taiwan. Christina came back to Canada with Mr.
Helmerichs for approximately one year before moving back to Taiwan; she has
limited contact with the couple’s child. Mr. Helmerichs is currently in what he
refers to as a common law relationship with Fan-Xiu Hsiao (Lindsay) who resides
in Taiwan.
Mr. Helmerichs
mother, Ingrid, has full custody of Sunjay which she obtained following Mr.
Helmerichs initial arrest and hospitalizations.
XIV.
ADULT
LIFESTYLE:
After he left
school, Mr. Helmerichs was married and moved to Wisconsin, Mrs. Helmerichs
queries that is when he became involved with the Mormon religion. After leaving
Wisconsin Mr. Helmerichs came home again for a short time before he moved to
Calgary. Next Mr. Helmerichs moved to Taiwan where he taught English.
Following his
move back to Canada, Mr. Helmerichs and his son resided with his mother for
approximately four years.
XV.
SUBSTANCE
USE & ADDICTIONS:
Mrs.
Helmerichs reported that she thought Mr. Helmerichs was using substances while
living in Taiwan because when he returned “everything was different”.
Mr. Helmerichs
is reported to have consumed on average of 15 bottles of wine and three cases
of beer per month following his discharge from Royal Victoria Regional Health
Centre in 2012. Mr. Helmerichs reportedly used marijuana in his early years and
endorsed resuming using it when he was 35 stating he used on average of .8grams
up to three times weekly.
XVI.
MEDICAL
HISTORY:
Mr. Helmerichs
is reported to be in good health.
XVII.
PREVIOUS
PSYCHIATRIC AND/OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL TREATMENT:
1.
Royal
Victoria Regional Health Centre, Barrie, ON. September 3/12 – October 30/12
(a) Mr. Helmerichs was brought to the hospital
by police as he was demonstrating “inappropriate and bizarre behaviour”. Mr.
Helmerichs was noted to be demonstrating symptoms of mania and lacking insight
into the fact that his behaviour was abnormal. Mr. Helmerichs had become “obsessed”
with a lady and he began to pursue her for approximately one year prior to his
initial charges which resulted when Mr. Helmerichs approached police with a bag
of marijuana asking to be arrested. Police asked why he wanted to be arrested
and Mr. Helmerichs allegedly replied that “being arrested was the final part of
his plan before he could claim his kingdom. He needed to be arrested to become
the king of Canada and the world and that he would not be able to unite all
churches until he was arrested.”
(b) Symptomology included delusions of
grandiosity and persecution. Dr. Chawla was unsure if Mr. Helemrichs was
experiencing thought insertion, withdrawal or broadcast. Mr. Helmerichs reportedly
described seeing “a column of light” in 2006 but he denied hallucinations. Mr.
Helmerichs had reportedly stated to his sister that he was God and that his son
was Jesus. During his admission to hospital Mr. Helmerichs threatened to “impregnate”
a young lady on the unit.
(c) Mr. Helmerichs was made incapable of
consenting to treatment and he was treated with Risperidone Consta with some
effect noted such as settling of his mania and his psychosis. He continued to
lack insight upon his discharge from hospital and once he returned home he did
not continue with his treatment. Mr. Helmericsh’ mother stated that by February
Mr. Helmerichs was having difficulty once again, he was presenting as
irritable.
(d) Upon discharge Mr. Helmerichs was reported
to be euthymic with reactive and appropriate affect; his speech rate was normal
rate, rhythm and volume and he was noted to have a slightly improved insight
into his illness.
(e) Discharge diagnosis: “Most likely
schizoaffective disorder, substance abuse, rule out schizoid personality
disorder.”
2.
Central
North Correctional Centre (CNCC), Penetanguishene, ON. Incarcerated 16 months
(a) Mr. Helmerichs was assessed by Dr. J. Van
Impe under a Form 8. Dr. Van Impe felt that Mr. Helmerichs met criteria for
psychotic disorder not otherwise specified and cannabis abuse. He also felt
that Mr. Helmerichs harboured erotomanic delusions about the [victim] and
believed he could communicate with her in her dreams. Dr. Van Impe felt that
differential diagnosis may be schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and
delusional disorder.
(b) This writer reviewed information sent by
Central North Correctional Centre and noted that Mr. Helmerichs had been placed
on a Form 1, Application by Physician for Psychiatric Assessment, on 12
occasions between December 5, 2013 and June 26, 2014. On the Inpatient
Facesheet from Waypoint during Mr. Helmerichs’ admission for assessment in July
2014 Dr. Van Impe stated that Dr. Lorberg had sent Mr. Helmerichs to court on
Form 1s in an attempt to engage Mr. Helmerichs is formal psychiatric assessment
and treatment.
3.
Ontario
Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, Whitby, ON. August 26, 2013 – October
2, 2013
(a) Mr. Helmerichs was admitted to the
Forensic Assessment Unit for an assessment of fitness to stand trial. On admission
he was noted to be cooperative and attentive. The admitting psychiatrist noted
his affect was “elated and labile, his thought processes were circumstantial,
and he demonstrated on inflated sense of self worth.” Dr. DeFreitas met with
Mr. Helmerichs on August 28, 2013 and noted him to be “irritable and
confrontational” he initially attempted to control what was placed on the chart
by the doctor asking her to read what she had written or telling her what to
write; Dr. DeFreitas told Mr. Helmerichs that she could not comply and she
noted he settled.
(b) Mr. Helmerichs was assessed by Dr. Sutton
on September 4, 2013 and was noted to have spent the previous night writing in
his room. Further Dr. Sutton noted Mr. Helmerichs to be “expansive and
grandiose stating he was difficult to follow and would answer the simplest of
questions with extensive tangents with no relation to the original question.”
Mr. Helmerichs “made reference to communicating with people’s dreams without
speaking” and he expressed beliefs he could make objects float. Mr. Helmerichs
endorsed persecutory delusions and lacked insight into his difficulties. Dr.
Sutton felt that Mr. Helmerichs’ symptoms aligned with a diagnosis of bipolar
disorder with psychotic features. In later assessments Mr. Helmerichs stated he
was “giving Dr. Sutton the run around” intentionally waste his time. He did
endorse wanting to be the King of Canada believing he could gain this title
with public support through his online blog.
(c) Final diagnosis: Axis I: Bipolar disorder;
possible cannabis abuse; possible alcohol abuse. Axis V: GAF 40
4.
Waypoint
Centre for Mental Health Care, Penetanguishene, ON. July 1, 2014 – July 2, 2014
(a) Mr. Helmerichs was admitted to the Acute
Assessment Program following a 16 month incarceration at Central North
Correctional Centre due to ongoing mental health concerns. Mr. Helmerichs was
discharged from CNCC directly to the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in
Barrie on a Form 1 and was subsequently admitted to Waypoint under the Mental
Health Act. Dr. Shahid was the attending Psychiatrist.
(b) Diagnosis: Axis I: History of Psychosis
NOS; Either questionable Bipolar disorder with Psychotic Features or a
Delusional Disorder; History of Marijuana Abuse – Not now. Axis II: Deferred.
Axis III: None. Axis IV: Primary support and social stresses; Possibly
financial stresses; Legal problems; GAF 51-60.
XVIII.
CRIMINAL
HISTORY:
At the time of
this assessment this facility had yet to receive a CPIC information sheet from
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, however, Mr. Helmerichs charges include:
criminal harassment, breach of probation, failure to comply with undertaking.
XIX.
SOCIAL
WORK FORMULATION/ RECOMMENDATIONS:
1.
The
content of this psychosocial assessment has been gathered from collateral
sources as Mr. Helmerichs would not meet with this writer to discuss his
history without the conversation being audio recorded. Mr. Helmerichs did agree
to respond to psychosocial questions via written documents thus this writer
provided the questions in a Word document for Mr. Helmerichs to fill out using
the unit computer. Mr. Helmerichs provided a 37 page document; the answers to
questions asked were extensive and often unrelated to the question. Simple
demographic information such as “place of birth” resulted in a two paragraph answer
that did not result in the appropriate answer. A copy of Mr. Helmerichs’
responses was placed on file.
2.
During
his admission at this facility Mr. Helmerichs spent much of his time on the
unit computer working on his legal matters and writing various letters to his
attending psychiatrist and various other hospital staff i.e. dietary, to
address his needs. He attended recreation programs when he could. Mr.
Helmerichs managed to access restricted sites (email) online using the unit
computer despite the safeguards that were in place. After the information
Technology department increased the security this writer believes he did so
again on February 1 or 2nd as his document that included his
responses to the psychosocial assessment were posted online and the time stamp
on the website was marked before this writer got to work on Monday February 2,
2015. This writer queries Mr. Helmerichs may have emailed the document to his “wife”
in Taiwan on Sunday and that she posted the document early Monday morning our
time.
3.
Mr.
Helmerichs had one visit from his mother and his son on Friday January 30,
2015. Mrs. Helmerichs requested that the visit be supervised as she was
concerned about what her son may say to her or how he would be with his son.
Mrs. Helmerichs described her son’s behaviour historically as unpredictable and
verbally aggressive if he feels that things are not going his way.
XX.
SIGNED:
Allison Jones, MSW, RSW Date: February
5, 2015
Excerpt from
the DSM-V 2013:
