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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Portales Woman To Go on Trial in Son's Drowning


Associated Press
      PORTALES — A Portales woman who said God told her to flush the devil from her 6-year-old son is to go on trial in September in his death.
    Teresa Gilman, 25, was ruled competent to stand trial in February after an evaluation at the New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute in Las Vegas, and was indicted Feb. 27 on a charge of child abuse resulting in death, according to court records.
    Police accuse her of killing her son, Lorenzo Cabral, on Jan. 4, 2007.
    An autopsy said the preliminary cause of the boy's death was head trauma, but drowning could not be ruled out as a cause, police said.
    According to an arrest affidavit, witnesses said Gilman poured water into the boy's mouth after he was unconscious.
    She is to go on trial Sept. 15 before state District Judge Drew Tatum.

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