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Preliminary hearing date set for Indio couple accused of killing infant
City News Service
A May 25 preliminary hearing date was confirmed Friday for an Indio couple accused in the beating and shaking death of their 3-month- old son.
Leonardo Daniel Alvarado Fernandez, 34, and Zue Urias, 27, were arrested in January 2020 after police responded to a report that they had brought their dead infant, Marco, into an Indio hospital.
Both defendants are charged with murder and assault on a child under 8 years old resulting in death, while Fernandez additionally faces one count of torture and two counts of willful cruelty to a child, along with a special circumstance allegation of inflicting torture that makes him eligible for capital punishment if convicted.
Imagine falling dramatically ill from an autoimmune condition that causes your body to attack your brain, only for everyone around you to assume you re going mad.
That is what happened to Queensland mum-of-three Elly Hawkins in April last year, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was taking hold in Australia. The doctors just kept telling me I was having this breakdown due to the pandemic, Ms Hawkins says.
Queensland mum Elly Hawkins fell ill with autoimmune encephalitis last year, the same condition explored in a the Netflix documentary Brain on Fire.(Supplied: Elly Hawkins)
It would take almost six months for Ms Hawkins, 35, to find a neurologist who knew what was really going on and diagnose her mystery illness - autoimmune encephalitis.
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