A young mother who claimed she tossed her three young sons in San Francisco Bay to send them to heaven was declared criminally insane Wednesday by a judge who spared her a possible life sentence.

After her client was acquitted of first-degree murder, Caffese made a brief statement outside court. It is difficult, she said. She is mentally ill. If your mind betrayed you, what would you want, prison or help?

Jurors in the murder trial of LaShuan Harris are scheduled to resume their deliberations this morning.

A woman who claimed God ordered her to make a human sacrifice chose to kill her three children instead of herself, making her guilty of murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments at the woman’s trial.

She knew they couldn’t swim and thought she was sending them to heaven. God had commanded her to sacrifice her three boys, her most precious possessions, Harris later told psychiatrists.

Voices in her head said to throw 3 boys in bay, defense says

[Update: Woman who threw three kids in SF bay on trial for murder]