A Florida father is facing one count of felony child abuse after he allegedly called his pregnant, 13-year-old daughter worthless and encouraged her to kill herself.
Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, west of Tallahassee, where Zarut Jean-Pierre Theolin is likely to be committed until she is restored to competency to face trial on charges of attempted kidnapping and burglary. (Wikimedia Commons)
Zarut Jean-Pierre Theolin, the troubled 26-year-old Palm Coast woman arrested on a burglary and attempted kidnapping of a child in a case that rattled three W-Section families on March 3–hers included–was judged incompetent to stand trial today and will be sent to a state mental hospital in Chattahoochee for treatment.
Circuit Judge Terence Perkins all but formally ratified the findings of Dr. Roger Davis, a Jacksonville psychologist, who found Jean-Pierre Theolin incompetent after evaluating her at the Flagler County jail. Perkins was ready to sign the order of incompetency today. He did not do so only because Jean-Pierre Theolin faces a burglary charge in Volusia County, where Circuit Judge Dennis Craig also ordered her competency evaluated