A mother in Egypt killed her five-year-old son by cutting off his head with a big knife and then cooked and ate his head. The court in Egypt has decided that she is mentally ill and cannot be held responsible for her actions.
Hanaa Mohamed Hassan, who is 29 years old, went to court for being accused of killing her son Youssef. However, the judges at the Criminal Court of Zagazig decided that she was not mentally capable to defend herself.
But in a decision announced on Saturday, they declared that she had killed the boy while being mentally ill and should be kept in a safe psychiatric facility.
Hassan was caught by Youssef’s uncle. He found some of Hassan’s body parts in a bucket at their home in Faqous.
The police said that after she was arrested, she admitted to eating a part of her son’s head because she wanted him to be with her forever.
She cut up his body in the bathroom before cooking his head and other parts of his body in boiling water on the stove.
Before the decision was made, the lawyers believed that Hasan killed her son because she was scared that she might not be able to keep him with her if her ex-husband got custody.
The first doctor report said she knew what she was doing, and she planned it. She got a club and a big knife before locking up her house.
She hit her son’s head three times and killed him. Then, she cut Youssef’s body into pieces to try to get rid of the evidence.
However, the court decided to do a more thorough examination of her mental health, and a group of mental health experts chosen by the court discovered that Hasan was having false beliefs and unrealistic ideas that her family members were using magic against her son.
The report said that Hassan’s ability to understand and make good decisions was not working well, and she did not realize how serious her actions were.
She saw the disgusting killing as just a small error.
Hassan was told to stay at the Abbasia Mental and Neurological Health Hospital in Cairo.
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