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GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) - A woman accused of strangling her four young children is incompetent to stand trial, a judge has ruled.
Elkhart Circuit Judge Terry Shewmaker on Tuesday ordered that Angelica Alvarez be committed to the state Division of Mental Health to determine if there is a probability she could become competent for trial in the "foreseeable future." If the agency finds that she will not become competent soon, he said, it should begin regular commitment proceedings.
Alvarez is accused of killing her children, ages 2 to 8, in their home on Nov. 14. She was found with a faint pulse next to the bodies.
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