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A Bronx judge determined Dimone Fleming, 26, is not criminally responsible for killing her two young sons in 2022 due to postpartum psychosis.
Add The New York Post on GoogleDimone Fleming, 26, was found not responsible by mental disease or defect in court on Monday for the deaths of her two children, 3-year-old Daishawn Fleming and 11-month-old Octavius Canada, at a Bronx family shelter, the On the night of the gruesome killings, Fleming was “grossly psychotic and out of touch with reality,” according to psychiatrist Dr. Eric Goldsmith.
Dimone Fleming, now-26, was found not criminally responsible by mental disease or defect for the deaths of her two young children in 2022 by a Bronx judge on Monday. Goldsmith, who evaluated Fleming at the request of the prosecution, said she was hallucinating, convinced that the world was coming to an end and believed a spirit had invaded her body.
Before the killings, Fleming had been treated at a Queens hospital for two months, where she was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and prescribed psychotropic medication, the Times reported, citing court records. But the mother of two did not take her medication as prescribed and instead used marijuana daily — which reportedly exacerbated her mental health symptoms. On the night of Nov. 26, 2022, a shelter employee called 911 on reports of water and smoke coming from Fleming’s apartment.
Cops didn’t initially notice the slain boys buried under a pile of clothes in the bathtub when they took her away, as a neighbor told police the young children were with their father. Prosecutors and Fleming’s lawyer agreed the now-26-year-old mother of two was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the of the killings. In court this week, prosecutors said that trying Fleming for double murder would not serve justice.
“Prosecuting mothers does not and cannot prevent these crimes from happening, but public discourse might,” Bronx assistant district attorney Tiffany Wichman told the publication. Fleming — who is not yet being released from custody — will be re-evaluated by court-appointed psychiatrists and is slated to return to court on Sept. 18.7 The jury are currently deliberating on an outcome for mother of three Lindsay Clancy who killed her three yound children in 2023.
Canada, 35, was in court on Monday and told the outlet that he forgives Fleming for what she did four years ago. Lindsay Clancy’s highly publicized Massachusetts triple-murder trialon the grounds she was experiencing severe postpartum psychosis when she strangled her three kids and tried to kill herself — allegedly worsened by a slew of powerful psychiatric meds she was prescribed.
Dimone Fleming, now-26, was found not criminally responsible by mental disease or defect for the deaths of her two young children in 2022 by a Bronx judge on Monday. HandoutThe jury are currently deliberating on an outcome for mother of three Lindsay Clancy who killed her three yound children in 2023.
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