Despite outcry from a former Hartford police officer who nearly died in a vicious stabbing, the state board that oversees psychiatric commitments voted Friday to uphold the decision to transfer Jill Kidik’s attacker from the maximum-security Whiting Forensic Hospital to a unit with less security and more privileges for patients.
A man charged with the stabbing death of a woman as she jogged on a Simsbury trail in 2014 pleaded guilty to murder and is to be sentenced to 35 years in prison, the prosecutor in the case said Wednesday.