Here we see the all-purpose “mental illness” deflection being used to aid a jihadi in evading responsibility for her crimes. It has happened many times before.

What do you bet they all walk before this is over? Given the current political climate regarding jihad terrorism, this is quite possible, even likely.

“Terrorism suspect hospitalized,” by John Miller, Taos News, October 24, 2019:

A U.S. District Court judge in Albuquerque has ordered one of the five people arrested last year at the makeshift compound near the Colorado border in Taos County to be hospitalized after finding her mentally unfit to stand trial.

Following a hearing held on Oct. 15, Chief U.S. District Court Judge William Johnson found that Jany Leveille suffers from a “mental disease or defect” rendering her unable to understand the charges she faces, court proceedings related to her charges and incapable of assisting in her own defense.

Leveille, who is an undocumented immigrant from Haiti, will initially be hospitalized for a maximum period of four months. If doctors determine she could eventually become competent to stand trial, they will continue to work with her for an “additional reasonable period of time” and may even require her to consume medication to help her attain competency.

Leveille and her four co-defendants – Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, Hujrah Wahhaj, Subhanah Wahhaj and Lucas Morton – were first taken into custody by the Taos County Sheriff’s Office at the compound near Amalia on Aug. 3, 2018. The raid was conducted to search for Siraj Ibn Wahhaj’s missing 3-year-old son, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, who was reported missing by his mother in Georgia in 2017. But while officers rescued 11 other children found living at the squalid dwelling, they found the toddler’s remains buried in a makeshift tunnel dug below the property during another search three days later.

Prosecutors have alleged that the child had suffered from a form of epilepsy, but that Leveille and Siraj Ibn Wahhaj believed he was possessed by evil spirits. Authorities say they denied the child medication he had been prescribed by a doctor and instead subjected him to religious rituals comparable to exorcisms. It is alleged that the Wahhaj toddler died during one of the rituals on Christmas Eve 2017, shortly after the group arrived at the compound.

An electronic journal recovered from the compound, allegedly written by Leveille, suggested that she saw herself as a religious prophet for the group and believed that the deceased toddler would be resurrected to instruct them on the government institutions they were to attack and destroy.

The sheriff’s office and members of the FBI also recovered numerous firearms, a stockpile of ammunition, a shooting range and other evidence to suggest the adults were preparing to carry out terrorist attacks on government institutions….