Posted on 09/17/2024 1:52:54 AM PDT by Phoenix8
CLEVELAND — The suspect accused of fatally stabbing 3-year-old Julian Wood earlier this summer in a Giant Eagle parking lot has been ordered to an inpatient treatment facility after being deemed incompetent to stand trial for the time being.
According to Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas records, Ellis was undergoing a 20-day evaluation when the doctor treating her stated: "that the defendant is incompetent to stand trial, but that there is a substantial probability of restoration to competency within the statutory time frame if provided with a course of treatment."
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In Seattle the mentally ill (including the murderer in the article) are supposed to be put in jail for a short time and then sent to a mental health facility.
But those facilities are full. The killer got paid $250 for each day in jail - totally over $60,000!
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