A Suffolk Superior Court jury today agreed with Angela Vazquez's attorney that she should not serve jail time for killing her daughter, 13, and son, 10, because she "suffered from a mental disease or defect at the time she committed the act," the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
However, Vazquez could still be locked up in a psychiatric facility, following a 40-day evaluation, the DA's office says.
Police found the decaying bodies of her two children on July 29, 2007. Officials say they could not determine the exact cause of death because their bodies had badly decomposed by the time they were found in her Maynard Road home, but that evidence and witnesses proved she killed them.