The mother accused of trying to stab her children last June in Arrieta could soon leave the Tahíche prison, where she has been in provisional detention since last August. The judge handling her case has responded to the request for release submitted by her defense by rejecting it, but ruling that the accused serve the provisional detention, with communication and without bail, in the Molina Orosa hospital in Arrecife. Her lawyer has already requested compliance with this judicial order, which can still be appealed by the Public Prosecutor's Office, and has requested the transfer of this mother to the hospital.
The magistrate has finally not agreed to allow her to remain free until the trial is held, but has agreed to have her admitted to Molina Orosa while that date arrives, as stated in the order issued this Friday. In that decision, the magistrate denies the "provisional release" and points out that the "circumstances" that determined the adoption of the prison measure "have not changed." Despite this, she establishes that the measure be carried out in the hospital.
The defense requested her release on March 2, after the forensic report determined that this mother had a "total absence" of her "capacity for judgment" when last San Juan she inflicted serious injuries on herself with a knife and injured her children with it, who were then 3 and 5 years old, although in their case the injuries were minor. Faced with this report, her husband emphasized that his wife had suffered a "psychotic episode" on the day of the events and defended her freedom and her return home with the children. Her defense considered that the prison "is not the ideal place" for her and had requested her release and that if the judge considered it so, it should be "under control or surveillance" psychiatric.
For the lawyer of the accused, although his request has been denied, it is a "huge step" that she can leave prison and be admitted to the hospital, even though she will not be able to return home as her husband and father of the children wished. Philipp explained to La Voz that he is in favor of his wife's freedom. Emphasizing that "there are two children at home waiting for their mother" and that they frequently ask him "when will she return," the husband emphasized that his wife is a "sick" person and that she should not be in prison. "She is not a criminal, she is a mother who did something without being aware," he stressed.
