Psychologist Going To Jail For Committing Neighbor Over Poop Fued

[matcom]

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BRADENTON, Fla. -- A Longboat Key psychologist has been sentenced to ten weekends in jail for lying on forms to involuntarily commit a griping neighbor who later died.

Holli Bodner had a yearlong feud with Jean Pierre Villar about street lights and dog poop before committing him to a mental health center in April 2003.

A prosecutor and Villar's family contend Bodner's action contributed to her 41-year-old neighbor's death from a blood clot last November. She pleaded no contest to a perjury charge and says she didn't mean any harm.

Erika Villar says her husband suffered from chronic pain after Manatee County sheriff's deputies aggravated a work-related back injury when they forced him into a squad car during the commitment process.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4285634/detail.html

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Now that's called getting off easy.

She should have been committed.

[ashmanonar]

2. she, actually.

or did yhou mean the guy she committed?

[Bunny]

3. I don't understand how she was able to have him involuntarily

committed. He would have had to be a clear and present danger to himself or others. I wish the story had more details.