WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A Waco grandmother who police say allowed her 2-year-old granddaughter to become emaciated while living in a filthy, roach-infested home was found incompetent to stand trial Tuesday in a 6-year-old case.

Judge Susan Kelly of Waco’s 54th State District Court ordered Noemi Constancio, 49, jailed while she awaits a hospital bed to become available at a state mental health facility. Constancio had been free on bond since her arrest in November 2019 on a first-degree felony injury to a child charge.

While prosecutors and Constancio’s attorney, Robert Callahan, agreed that Constancio is incompetent at this time to stand trial, they disagreed on whether she should be treated at an in-patient facility or as an out-patient.

Kelly’s order committed Constancio to an in-patient

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