Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin – The sons of the Rosendale man Keith VandeBerg who killed his wife say that the mental health system of the government has failed them by releasing him from commitment to a mental institution.
After years from court-ordered mental health commitment, VandeBerg, 66 years old, was set free on Saturday into the Madison community according to his lawyer Mark Hazelbaker. The lawyer said that his client was found not guilty of the crime because of his mental illness going back to the shooting death of his wife Terrie in 1998. VandeBerg was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia around three years earlier before the shooting incident.
The family of the Rosendale man was advised then that he would be spending his whole life confined in a mental health urgent care clinic.
According to one of his three sons Chad VandeBerg, the rights of his mother have been trampled and hearing about his father’s release from the mental health commitment ordered by the court came as a shock to the family. He added that instead of living with justice, they are now living in fear.
The youngest of the sons of Keith VandeBerg, Daniel, agreed with the statement of his elder brother trusting that his father has to live in a controlled environment like mental health centers or urgent care clinics to make sure that everyone will be safe.
Daniel VandeBerg also added that he his brothers do not want to have anything to do with their father after all they’ve been through. He said that his father was not religiously taking his prescription which was a struggle that their mother and the rest of the family had with the man.
Meanwhile, Keith VandeBerg will be supervised by an urgent care clinic near me or by a community treatment program according to The Reporter Media. The man plans to live alone now that he’s out of urgent care as stated by his attorney Hazelbaker. He will also stay under the state’s control for the rest of his life since a criminal commitment should last as long as the punishment for the crime.
After the death of Terrie VandeBerg, the family said that his husband suspects that his wife was having an affair with another man. When asked by the police what happened, he told them that he already stopped taking his meds.
Keith VandeBerg hopes and prays that one day his family, especially is sons, will be will to talk to him again, Hazelbaker stated.
