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hookaleft

(938 posts)
Thu May 27, 2021, 04:46 PM May 2021

Doomsday Mom Accused of Murdering Her Two Kids Found Unfit to Stand Trial

If you have been following this case as I have, this is just shocking news


A psychological evaluation has found Lori Vallow—the doomsday mom accused of murdering her two children—“not competent” to stand trial.

“Assessment determined at this time the defendant is not competent to proceed and recommends restorative treatment,” Seventh Judicial District Judge Steven Boyce wrote in a Thursday order pausing the case.

Prosecutors have already contested the report’s findings, but the judge’s order “remains in effect pending determination of the issue of competency.”

The news comes after Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, were indicted on several new charges and accused of justifying the murders of three people—including Vallow’s two kids—with their doomsday-centered religious beliefs.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/lori-vallow-doomsday-mom-accused-of-murdered-kids-found-unfit-to-stand-trial













https://www.thedailybeast.com/lori-vallow-doomsday-mom-accused-of-murdered-kids-found-unfit-to-stand-trial

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Doomsday Mom Accused of Murdering Her Two Kids Found Unfit to Stand Trial (Original Post) hookaleft May 2021 OP
If she is mentally ill she belongs in a hospital twin_ghost May 2021 #1
True. If she's unfit to stand trial, she's unfit to be walking around, trying to do life. catrose May 2021 #2
There are at least two, if not three Dateline episodes covering this whole saga. hlthe2b May 2021 #3
SOP Sneederbunk May 2021 #4

twin_ghost

(435 posts)
1. If she is mentally ill she belongs in a hospital
Thu May 27, 2021, 04:53 PM
May 2021

If she had a heart attack we would treat her in a hospital also.

hlthe2b

(102,297 posts)
3. There are at least two, if not three Dateline episodes covering this whole saga.
Thu May 27, 2021, 04:56 PM
May 2021

Disturbing as hell...

RIP, children (and the other victims).

Sneederbunk

(14,291 posts)
4. SOP
Thu May 27, 2021, 05:15 PM
May 2021

She will be sent to a state mental facility. There, she will be drugged until the authorities determine she is competent. Then she will be sent back to court for trial.

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