Siders 16 Kids Case: Their Grandmother’s Mental Exam Sent Her Here
Christina Siders, the grandmother charged after 16 children were found in a Hamden, Ohio, home, was ruled not competent to stand trial and ordered to an inpatient facility. Her lawyer says the doctor flagged several risk factors for dementia and called for a full neurological exam, and the judge said she hasn’t been diagnosed with dementia.
That ruling came the same day her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Siders, was found competent. Christina’s husband, Gary Siders Sr., already had his case dismissed after an evaluator found he couldn’t be restored. Their son, Gary Siders Jr., is still waiting.
If doctors say Christina has been restored, she goes back before the judge and her case moves toward trial. She still faces 19 counts of endangering children, and prosecutors say in a court filing that the most serious ones involve serious physical harm to her grandchildren.
I break down how competency and insanity work in Ohio, why Elizabeth’s lawyer is asking for a second exam, and why all four adults gave up the hearing where prosecutors would have had to show evidence in open court. Then I go back to what a juvenile court found about these children years earlier.
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