{"id":341087,"date":"2026-07-15T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341087\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:56:09","slug":"judge-rules-mother-acquitted-of-killing-1-year-old-daughter-will-remain-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341087\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge rules mother acquitted of killing 1-year-old daughter will remain free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/25\/doesnt-stop-the-pain-woman-found-not-guilty-by-insanity-in-daughters-drowning-case-speaks-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/25\/doesnt-stop-the-pain-woman-found-not-guilty-by-insanity-in-daughters-drowning-case-speaks-out\/\">found not guilty for the drowning death of her 1-year-old daughter<\/a> and attempted murder of her husband and teen daughter will remain free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Wednesday,  a Miami-Dade judge ruled that Precious Bland, 38, will not be institutionalized. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The case dates back to the summer of 2021, when Bland maintained that Covid was to blame for her actions, that the virus caused a temporary psychosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said she was trying to baptize her family after hearing voices in her head telling her Jesus is coming back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bland was calm when she left the courtroom Wednesday morning while her attorney stopped to speak to the media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cShe was found not guilty on all counts, but she still has to live with the fact and circumstances of something that happened that was beyond her control, that changed her dream life into a nightmare, and that\u2019s going to be forever,\u201d said defense attorney Larry Handfield. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bland, who already spent several years behind bars, is focused on rebuilding her life, Handfield said.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Linnie Supall\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/CANLLYSXDJBXDMDOXMBEIDTX.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Linnie Supall<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Linnie Supall is an Emmy nominated and award-winning journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM MIAMI \u2014 A woman found not guilty for the drowning death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-341087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}