Authorities said the child was kidnapped from Rushdi's parents' home in Upper Darby Township in Delaware County. Rushdi was arrested in August 2013 and placed in custody in Delaware County, where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Rushdi's case was moving forward until August 2017, when a Delaware County Court of Common Pleas judge, acting on a psychiatric examination, determined he was incompetent to stand trial.
Rushdi in 2018 was involuntarily committed to Norristown State Hospital, a state-funded psychiatric hospital near Philadelphia, where the case has since been revisited several times in court, with Rushdi deemed still incompetent to stand trial each time, according to court records.