Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe confirmed her resignation from the Legal Medical Service (SML) after the visiting minister, Carlos Aldana, invalidated the expert opinion of the former senator who declared a person convicted of crimes against humanity mentally insane.
“Yesterday I spoke by telephone with the regional director of the Legal Medical Service, I presented my position to him and tomorrow I am going to do it formally, in person, to be able to go and deliver the keys and everything that corresponds,” said the former senator in conversation with Bío Bío radio. This resignation will become effective this Friday.
Van Rysselberghe added that she was invited “to participate, because there are not many psychiatrists who are willing to carry out expert reports on people who are criminals, who then have to go to defend the expert reports in court.”
“It seemed like an interesting challenge and I said ‘let’s do it for a while to try it out,’” he explained, adding that he never imagined “that it would generate all this controversy and situation that doesn’t seem to me to make any sense.”
Along these lines, the former parliamentarian stated that “I never imagined that it would generate so much sting that a right-wing person could make reports.”