Judge: Dad competent for trial in baby torture case (Jorupa, California)

A judge has ruled that dad JEREMIAH SCOTT is mentally competent to stand trial on charges of torture and child abuse of his two young daughters. One was just a 4-month-old infant. We've posted on this case before.

http://blogs.pe.com/news/digest/2010/08/judge-rules-jurupa-area-man-co.html

JURUPA: Dad competent for trial in baby torture case
By PE News on August 31, 2010 2:56 PM

A Jurupa-area father accused of torturing his young daughters is mentally competent to stand trial, a Riverside Superior Court judge ruled today.

Judge Richard T. Fields also set a Sept. 29 preliminary hearing for Jeremiah Scott, 23.

Scott was charged with two counts each of torture, child abuse and inflicting corporal injury on a child after his two daughters — one a toddler and the other an infant — were found tied up on the floor of a bedroom at the Jurupa-area home where Scott lived with the mother of the girls.

Investigators said the girls showed signs of having been beaten. One of the girls, who was 4-months-old at the time, had a sock stuffed in her mouth.

Scott has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Fields appointed two psychologists to examine Scott after a psychologist who examined him for the defense concluded that he is schizophrenic and unable to assist in his defense.

Fields made his ruling after reviewing the reports submitted by the court-appointed psychologists.

— SANDRA STOKLEY