PONTIAC, Mich. --A Rochester Hills teenager accused of stabbing his mother 111 times believed he was on "mission for God" to kill people who were threatening children, a psychologist has testified.

Christopher Dankovich, now 16, faces an open charge of murder in the April 24, 2005 stabbing death of Diane Dankovich, 50, at their home in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills.

He had made a guilty plea but withdrew it last month after Oakland County Circuit Judge John J. McDonald said he could not honor a deal with prosecutors that called for a sentence of 22 1/2 to 34 years in prison.

McDonald called a hearing Wednesday about Dankovich's mental condition.

Should McDonald reject the sentencing deal, Dankovich would stand trial. The judge said he would announce a decision Monday.

Dr. Harley Stock testified that Dankovich thought God had picked him to kill people who were harming children. He said the intended targets included pornographers, abortion doctors and U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., a former presidential candidate.

Stock said the teen stabbed his mother after she grounded him.

"She disrupted his mission from God. Nobody was going to stand in his way. And so he killed her," said Stock, a former deputy director of the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ypsilanti.

Dankovich also has tried to kill himself twice, Stock said.
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God should find a better way to kill people.

I don't think God had anything to do with it. The sad thing is, if this kid truly is mentally ill, he is a victim as well.

Maybe they should let him be successful in his suicide attempts. It would save alot of money in court costs.

While you are sitting there just make the stabbing motion 111 times. That is incredible. It takes quite a while and it's tiring just stabbing air. Horrible.

george w said he is on a mission from god and people don't think he's crazy.

What people THINK and SAY are two different things. I think anyone who says they are on a mission from God should be locked up. And I say that, as well!!!

Its possible this child was in communication with an Evil Spirit who told him he was God.
Remember the man who shot Dr. Martin Luther King told people God told him to Kill Dr. King.
Again its possible that a voice from the After Life kept hounding both of these people and kept telling them he was God and finally they carried out these Crimes.
This is how some Evil Spirits control people.
The Bible talks about Spirits like this and they still can speak from the Spirit World and control others to do their Dirty Work.

why would you stab some one 111 times?

^Because he thought he was on a mission from God, like the article says.

Or he could have a mental illness....

There is no such thing as a mental illness.

Isn't there something in the US Constitution about religious freedoms?

I think this boy should not be charged with anything.

Your in denial sweetheart. Your "shocking" replies only scream "I need attention!" which could indicate some sort of mental problem.

Oh and where in the US Constitution does it state that it's perfectly fine to murder someone? hmmm? I'd like you to point that out to me please.

The Devil is the king of deception. Of course he could have told this kid he was God, and to kill. The real God is not a vengeful god, but a loving and compassionate God.

God will never tell a person to kill another, the Devil will. Usually they work through Half-Breeds. Half-Breeds can be on Earth, they give us a nudge, sometimes good, sometimes bad. Seems to me like the deceiver is doing fairly well in this world.

You need to open your eyes to the LIES of the government. Bush is one of the worst presidents in our history.


http://www.911review.com/index.html <- Bush Lied about 9/11.

I couldn't agree with you more

if the devil made him do it, why put him in jail?

Or more likely he was mentally unstable, he probably was schizophrenic and psychopathic, two commonly linked mental diseases.

Wow messed up boy, truly sad. I know he said he killed her cuz she stood in his way-but what's the need for 111 stabbings. Or was the whole 'God asked me to' thing made up after he got thru his rush in the moment and realized 'wtf did i just do'. If so, I would have to say he's somewhat mental. This boy obvisouly has no concious.

So it is OK to stab your Mum 111 times when she grounds you??? I am not up to speed with the US constitution but I would like you to show me where it states it is OK to murder someone?

The boy said he was on a mission from God... why do these freaks always blame someone else.. put him in a chair and fry him.

someone has to be really screwed up to stab their mother. maybe she was abusing him also? something to mess him up, what happened to the father? etc.

other then that, i think he might have just watched frailty too many times.

Well, except maybe murder. Yeah, probably murder. I'm thinking maybe murder.

couldn't agree more... hang him, and send him straight to hell....

If more had my view on god, the kid would already be dead.
Accountability.

Yess ... you guys have my full support too!

this happened in england too, although slightly different
a babysitter belvied he was jesus and the 5 year old he was babysitting was Judas Iscariot, so he stabbed him a couple o' hundred times...

are you kidding me he stabbed a innocent woman 111 times!!! think about how f****** up her corpse must of been, and ur saying he should be charged because there are religious freedoms, pplus u say there is no mental illness.....wow you need a life

Religious freedoms only as long as they do not infringe on another person's rights, which is why you can't have human sacrifices.