The Prosecutor's Office requests "free acquittal" for the woman who tried to "stab her children in June 2015 in Arrieta", and that she be interned for a period of 15 years, for each of the two crimes, "in a psychiatric center for the treatment appropriate to the type of anomaly or mental alteration" suffered by the accused, a doctor by profession, will be tried next Wednesday, February 8 in Arrecife, before the Sixth Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas.
In its indictment, the Prosecutor's Office considers that the accused incurred in two crimes of attempted murder, but at the same time points out that "the circumstance of exemption from criminal responsibility" concurs in the defendant. And it is that it indicates that the woman committed the acts "having absolutely annulled her volitional and intellectual capacities, being under the influence of a delirium that conditioned her acts". It is indicated that this caused her "a complete decrease in the understanding, in its nature and consequences, of the acts for which she is being prosecuted, with a total absence in her capacity for judgment at that time".
The prosecutor also adds that "the severity of the mental disorder" suffered by the defendant requires "mandatory monitoring by specialized medical personnel", since this type of "disorder describes high rates of relapse, with the essential characteristic of having a sudden onset of psychotic symptoms." And this, he points out, "exceeds the possibilities of outpatient control".
Requests that provisional bail be maintained without bail
The prosecutor also requests that "the provisional communicated prison without bail for the defendant be maintained". The woman has been in prison for this case, according to the writing, since July 29, 2015. It should be remembered that her husband, in March of last year, requested the withdrawal of the provisional prison measure imposed on his wife.
On different occasions, both the husband and the defense lawyer defended the need for the woman to leave prison "if necessary, under (psychiatric) control, surveillance or whatever the judge understood. They also questioned then "if the prison was the most suitable place" for the woman to recover from the disease she presented.
The events for which the accused of two crimes of "attempted murder" is now being tried occurred on June 24, 2015, when the woman was at her home in Arrieta and, "with the intention of attacking the lives of her children", who were then 3 and 5 years old, went to their bedroom "carrying a steel kitchen knife about 29 and a half centimeters long and attacked them with the knife, depriving them of any possibility of defense".
Resigns any compensation
The five-year-old boy was "stabbed several times in the neck and in the left arm", causing various injuries that took 15 days to heal and that caused, according to the Prosecutor's Office, "sequelae considered as a slight-moderate aesthetic damage". He also stabbed "several times in the neck and chest" the three-year-old girl and caused injuries that also took 15 days to heal. The sequelae in her case are considered, as in that of her brother, "as a slight-moderate aesthetic damage".
The husband of the accused and legal representative of the children has "expressly renounced any type of compensation that may correspond to him for the injuries and sequelae suffered by his children".
In the trial on Wednesday, February 8, the defendant and seven agents of the Civil Guard who intervened in the case will testify. In addition, two forensic doctors will testify and various documentary evidence will be provided.
