This story makes my head want to explode. Acquitted?! WTF? She needs to be taken out of society permanently.

April 6, 2004, 10:47PM

Mom who bludgeoned sons sent to state mental hospital
Associated Press
TYLER -- A mother acquitted by reason of insanity in the bludgeoning deaths of her sons was committed Tuesday to a maximum-security state mental hospital in Vernon.

In a hearing attended by Deanna Laney's husband and other family members, a state district judge ordered Laney to be transferred from the Smith County Jail to the hospital 190 miles northwest of Dallas.

After an evaluation of Laney's mental health, another hearing will be held, most likely at the end of the month, to determine whether she should be involuntarily committed. If she is, she'll remain in the hospital for up to 90 days for observation and treatment. The court may order Laney to stay in the hospital, prescribe outpatient treatment or order Laney released. Under state law, she could be committed for the rest of her life.

Laney, 39, was found innocent by reason of insanity of all charges in the deaths of Joshua, 8, and Luke, 6, and the severe beating of Aaron, now 2. The jury found that Laney suffered from a severe mental illness that caused her not to know right from wrong -- the standard in Texas for insanity -- when she bashed her sons' skulls with rocks last year.