Suspect won’t talk to adults:

One of the many recurring themes here at TTRR is it really hacks me when slimy defense lawyers and even slimier criminals try using legitimate conditions like Autism and Asperger’s as criminal defenses. In the annals of this website that defense has never been successful until now.

If you’ve been reading this site for a while you may remember the case of Robert Derderian. He’s the then 18-year-old from Concord, New Hampshire who was accused of repeatedly molesting a 10-year-old and molesting a 12-year-old and video taping himself molesting the 12-year-old. You would think that with such damning evidence it would be an open and shut case. Not so.

Derderian refused to assist in his own defense. He refused to speak to his own defense attorney. It was claimed that Derderian had Autism and Asperger’s so bad that he could only talk to children and not adults. The state bughouse he was sent to in order to determine his competency even said that he has selective mutism, a crippling anxiety that keeps the subject from speaking to certain people. Eternal coward and mass murderer Cho Seung Hui allegedly had selective mutism as well.

Here’s the thing though. There’s no pee on a stick type tests to determine if Derderian has any of these disorders. In my opinion, it all could be that Derderian is nothing more than a child molester who happens to be a good actor. Such a good actor in fact that he partially put one over on the judge. Derderian has been ruled incompetent to stand trial but has been ruled a danger to the community and ordered back to the bughouse.

Like I’ve said before if someone has the mental capacity to molest a girl over a series of months and not get caught and the ability to videotape another assault I tend to doubt that he’s incompetent to stand trial.

Anybody that has a friend, relative or child that has any of these conditions, or if you have any of these conditions, should be appalled at what this scumbag has pulled and the fact that the judge is letting him get away with it.