02-17-2014, 10:17 AM
NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY
A Louisiana father accused of cutting off the head of his disabled 7-year-old son has been found not guilty by reason of insanity, his defense attorney said Friday.
Prosecutors agreed to the ruling of insanity and that Wright will be returned to the state mental hospital in Jackson where he had been held.
Wright had been charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 14, 2011, death.
According to a sworn police statement, Wright told investigators he had recently seen signs that made him believe he was living with a CPR dummy rather than his son.
Those signs, he said, included being defecated and urinated on the morning he decapitated and dismembered the boy, whom he referred to throughout the statement as "the dummy."
He also told police he and the boy's mother had fought the evening before, and that she had told him she was moving him out of the house.
A Louisiana father accused of cutting off the head of his disabled 7-year-old son has been found not guilty by reason of insanity, his defense attorney said Friday.
Prosecutors agreed to the ruling of insanity and that Wright will be returned to the state mental hospital in Jackson where he had been held.
Wright had been charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 14, 2011, death.
According to a sworn police statement, Wright told investigators he had recently seen signs that made him believe he was living with a CPR dummy rather than his son.
Those signs, he said, included being defecated and urinated on the morning he decapitated and dismembered the boy, whom he referred to throughout the statement as "the dummy."
He also told police he and the boy's mother had fought the evening before, and that she had told him she was moving him out of the house.