Mansfield woman found not guilty by reason of insanity in son's drowning
09:51 PM CDT on Thursday, May 1, 2008
FORT WORTH – A Mansfield
woman who admitted drowning her year-old son in the family's hot tub
was found not guilty by reason of insanity Thursday by a criminal
district judge.
But Valeria Maxon, 33, will not go free
any time soon. She was ordered to undergo inpatient treatment at North
Texas State Hospital in Vernon at the close of the capital murder
trial.
Her husband, Michael Maxon, 54, faces a criminal
charge of abandoning a child in the drowning death of their son,
Alexander Maxon. Mr. Maxon was arrested last week for leaving his son
and wife home alone June 30, 2006, even though Mrs. Maxon had recently
tried to commit suicide and talked about being afraid that she'd harm
the child.
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