Mental health evaluation ordered for Ruth DiRienzo-Whitehead, mom accused of murdering 11-year-old son
HORSHAM, Pennsylvania --
The Pennsylvania mom accused of strangling her 11-year-old son as he slept must undergo a mental health evaluation, a court docket shows. The evaluation for 50-year-old Ruth DiRienzo-Whitehead is expected to happen before her initial Montgomery County court hearing.Her lawyer, Eugene Tinari, told Action News last week that DiRienzo-Whitehead does not deny killing her son, but says she is suffering from mental illness.Matthew WhiteheadPolice in New Jersey found DiRienzo-Whitehead outside her family's beach house in Wildwood Crest after her SUV was found partially submerged in the ocean in Cape May.
Documents show DiRienzo-Whitehead told police she didn't want Matthew to grow up with her family's financial problems, so she strangled him with her husband's belt as he slept.
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