Diaper-clad lurker sent for psych assessment
Richard Watts
Times Colonist
Thursday, September 27, 2007
A man who frightened staff at a Sidney nursing home by lurking around dressed in diapers and carrying a baby bottle was ordered yesterday to undergo psychological testing.
Morten Lilholt of Galiano Island appeared in provincial court in Victoria, neatly groomed and fully dressed in tweed jacket, shirt, tie and long trousers.
The 45-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of mischief in July.
Crown counsel Barbara Penty said Lilholt was arrested Oct. 6, 2006, after staff at the Sidney Care Home reported a man wearing baby outfits peering through glass doors.
Once, despite a security system designed to keep track of elderly patients, the man was even found inside the facility.
After the incident, Penty said, nurses took to barricading the doors during the night shift.
"It's terrorized the staff at the care home."
Lilholt's first appearance at the nursing home was at 2 a.m., when he was found inside the building wearing a one-piece baby's jumper outfit and a "beanie"-type hat. He fled when confronted.
Five hours later, the same man, this time dressed in a man-sized diaper and a little yellow top and carrying a baby bottle, was noticed peering through the windows.
The man fled, but was seen heading for a nearby tree, where he fished out long pants, put them on and left.
Later that day, acting on an anonymous tip, RCMP found Lilholt hiding in bushes near the McDonald Park Road overpass.
Inside his pack police found a baby bottle, beer and an adult-sized diaper in a plastic bag.
Penty said staff at the nursing home also reported a man wearing a diaper peering through the glass doors in July 2005.
Similar allegations of a man on the prowl in a diaper and women's lingerie have surfaced in the Peel Region in southern Ontario, where Lilholt was from originally.
Since Lilholt's July guilty plea, Penty said, the Crown has been unable to determine an appropriate sentence that includes public-safety measures. Lilholt has been unwilling to co-operate in a psychiatric assessment of the risk he presents to the community, she said.
"It's just disturbing because it's so bizarre and it's unexplained," said Penty.
Judge J. Michael Hubbard ordered Lilholt to undergo a psychological risk assessment, warning that he may be ordered into custody for the test if he fails to co-operate.
The case was put over until a later date.
© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2007
Richard Watts
Times Colonist
Thursday, September 27, 2007
A man who frightened staff at a Sidney nursing home by lurking around dressed in diapers and carrying a baby bottle was ordered yesterday to undergo psychological testing.
Morten Lilholt of Galiano Island appeared in provincial court in Victoria, neatly groomed and fully dressed in tweed jacket, shirt, tie and long trousers.
The 45-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of mischief in July.
Crown counsel Barbara Penty said Lilholt was arrested Oct. 6, 2006, after staff at the Sidney Care Home reported a man wearing baby outfits peering through glass doors.
Once, despite a security system designed to keep track of elderly patients, the man was even found inside the facility.
After the incident, Penty said, nurses took to barricading the doors during the night shift.
"It's terrorized the staff at the care home."
Lilholt's first appearance at the nursing home was at 2 a.m., when he was found inside the building wearing a one-piece baby's jumper outfit and a "beanie"-type hat. He fled when confronted.
Five hours later, the same man, this time dressed in a man-sized diaper and a little yellow top and carrying a baby bottle, was noticed peering through the windows.
The man fled, but was seen heading for a nearby tree, where he fished out long pants, put them on and left.
Later that day, acting on an anonymous tip, RCMP found Lilholt hiding in bushes near the McDonald Park Road overpass.
Inside his pack police found a baby bottle, beer and an adult-sized diaper in a plastic bag.
Penty said staff at the nursing home also reported a man wearing a diaper peering through the glass doors in July 2005.
Similar allegations of a man on the prowl in a diaper and women's lingerie have surfaced in the Peel Region in southern Ontario, where Lilholt was from originally.
Since Lilholt's July guilty plea, Penty said, the Crown has been unable to determine an appropriate sentence that includes public-safety measures. Lilholt has been unwilling to co-operate in a psychiatric assessment of the risk he presents to the community, she said.
"It's just disturbing because it's so bizarre and it's unexplained," said Penty.
Judge J. Michael Hubbard ordered Lilholt to undergo a psychological risk assessment, warning that he may be ordered into custody for the test if he fails to co-operate.
The case was put over until a later date.
© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2007
a man I guess?
