The man who was labeled as a “fantasy” was committed to a mental hospital for refusing to admit that he was someone else; Big payout wins

The man who was labeled as a "fantasy" was committed to a mental hospital for refusing to admit that he was someone else; Big payout wins

A man in the US spent two years in a psychiatric hospital after being mistaken for someone else. Joshua Spersterbach, 55, was arrested by police in 2017 after being arrested off the street at a Hawaii state psychiatric hospital for the crime of a man named Thomas Castleberry. Spresterbach filed a lawsuit for wrongful detention … Read more

‘Like a drug’: SF man says he got into betting at age 11 while suffering from gambling addiction

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San Francisco (KGO) — “These games, it felt like crack cocaine. It was like fun.” The increase in online gambling is causing problems of betting by young people, especially teenage boys. The parents we interviewed had no idea how bad their child’s gambling addiction had become. In some cases, years passed before they knew. ABC7’s … Read more