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US MASS MURDERER Charles Manson, who was rushed to hospital earlier this week, is suffering from intestinal bleeding but is too weak to undergo surgery, according to media reports.
The 82-year-old, who is serving nine life sentences for the 1969 grisly killing of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, was reportedly transported from California’s Corcoran state prison to a hospital in Bakersfield on Sunday.
The celebrity gossip website TMZ said Manson was supposed to undergo surgery on Thursday but doctors determined he was too weak and the procedure too risky.
TMZ said doctors wanted to perform surgery shortly after he was rushed to hospital but he refused.
Manson finally agreed to go under the knife on Thursday but his condition was too weak, TMZ said.
“Manson remains in hospital and doctors are trying to figure out their next move,” it added.
Manson headed an apocalyptic cult that went on a killing spree in 1969 in upscale, mostly white neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The group hoped to blame the crimes on African-Americans and spark what Manson termed a “Helter Skelter” race war.
He was sentenced to death in 1969 along with four of his “Manson Family” disciples for having led the killing of seven people – including director Roman Polanski’s wife Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant – but their sentences were later commuted to life in prison.
Manson, who was not actually present but ordered the bloody rampage, has been denied parole 12 times and is not eligible to apply again until 2027.
A prison official told AFP that during his more than 40 years behind bars, the cult leader had accumulated well over 100 rules violations, including for assault, possession of a weapon, threatening staff and possessing a cellphone.
“He cannot be described as a model inmate,” said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Thornton said she could not comment on Manson’s health condition because of privacy laws.
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May it be long drawn out and painful
2016 took all the famous people that were loved, 2017 about to start taking the ones no one will miss?
@Kirk Van Houten:
Let’s hope so.
Sad thing is that he will have better health care than most Americans not to mention the 30 million who are about to have their health care removed by the Republicans.
We have much better public health service (well, we actually have one) but if you’re an insured patient in the US the care you’ll recieve will be vastly superior to care you we would recieve in Ireland
Well said sir
Nice to see positive news for a change :)
Fingers crossed that’s the end of him now
@Stephen Robinson: Knowing things, his ashes will have to be put into a Dybbuk box… Evil sod Manson.
I say chance it anyways
He won’t be missed
He should have been executed decades ago. It’s disgusting the millions of dollars that have been wasted keeping him alive.
In other news My phone died today.
Hope he suffers.
As my Father would say “it’s hard to kill a bad thing” !
Charlie Manson never murdered anyone. Cult leader perhaps, but never a murderer.
I’m not saying he’s a nice guy but can the journal get anything right? Remember this crap the next time they purport to be fact checking.
I get what you mean, but you could say Hitler didn’t personally kill 6 million Jews. Just because they didn’t pull the trigger doesn’t mean it is not attributed to them.
@Early Cuyler: Write to Trump requesting a pardon. His nazi pal Bannon will make it happen.
Not eligible for parole till 2027? Something tells me he ain’t gonna get there.
@Jimmy Murphy: I hope he does, lying in his own filth as tubes feed him and keep him alive in perpetuity. He doesn’t deserve the luxury of death.
@gary what a screwball he is .Scary looking .Slightly concerned how you came to find that footage . Should we be worried lol
U ok hun?
Who is all these people that he murdered
Google it, or even better read a book on the murders.. I suggest Helter Skelter..
And it’s ‘ who are…’
#prayforcharlie
Good hope he suffers
Ever listened to his stuff? One day I pulled my caravan up for the night outside the prison in California.
Was there powdered in his prison dinner or is it ulcers?
Bloody keyboard. Was there powdered glass in his food?
He never actually killed anyone.
This piece of trash will die naturally and it bugs me so much after all the suffering he caused.
CIA stooge. Never killed anyone
Satans imps are coming to get u Charlie boy, enjoy the ride
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