Woman Acquitted in Children’s Stoning Deaths Freed
Posted/updated on: May 26, 2012 at 7:15 am
TYLER (AP/STAFF) — An East Texas woman acquitted by reason of insanity in the 2003 stonings of her three children, two of them fatal, has been released from a state mental hospital.
Court documents obtained by KLTV-TV show Deanna Laney, 47, of New Chapel Hill was released from the Kerrville State Hospital after four psychiatrists testified behind closed doors last week that she no longer posed a threat to others. State attorneys disagreed.
However, she is subject to a list of conditions, including that she have no unsupervised contact with minors and submit to regular drug tests to ensure that she takes required medication.
A Smith County jury acquitted Laney in 2004 of the deaths of two sons, Joshua, 8, and Luke, 6. Son Aaron, then 14 months old, survived but suffered brain damage.
