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Court Declares Villa María Matricide Accused Legally Unaccountable, Orders Psychiatric Internment

An interdisciplinary evaluation concluded he lacked capacity to grasp the criminality of his acts, rendering him unfit for prosecution.

Overview

  • The Control Court ordered his provisional placement at the Emilio Vidal Abal psychiatric hospital in Oliva, a measure made effective on October 27.
  • Hospital leadership must file weekly reports to the court on his clinical evolution under ongoing judicial oversight.
  • Prosecutor René Bosio sought the measure after court-appointed experts Ana Folledo and María de Los Ángeles Bufados found he could not comprehend or direct his actions at the time.
  • He had initially been charged with aggravated homicide by kinship with a gender-based violence qualifier, but the finding of legal unaccountability shifts the case to indefinite medical care rather than a criminal trial.
  • The October 9 killing of Mónica Viviana Salguero involved 34 stab wounds, with two bloodstained knives seized at the scene; judicial sources said the accused had been under psychiatric treatment for schizophrenia.