Judge accepts teen's insanity plea in murder of mother

19-year-old Isabella Guzman is accused of fatally stabbing her mother over 150 times



A follow-up on this horrifying case out of Colorado, where a 19-year-old woman, charged with first-degree murder after stabbing her mother over 150 times, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Judge accepts Isabella Guzman's insanity plea; accused of stabbing mother 151 times

Isabella Guzman, who was 18 at the time, used a knife to stab her mother Yun-Mi Hoy in the face, neck, arms and torso in the bathroom of their home on August 28, 2013. According to police, 151 individual stab wounds were discovered on Hoy's body. She was also beaten with a baseball bat.

Guzman, who was arrested and charged with murder, was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Based on evidence, the district attorney determined that Guzman did not know right from wrong.

Call for Submissions: Anthology of Asian and Pacific Islander Women's Experiences with Mental Illness

What are the untold stories of APIA women and mental health?

I recently got this call for submissions passed along to me... Editor Aileen Alfonso Duldulao is putting the call out to Asian and Pacific Islander women for essays, letters, interviews, poems and other reflections focusing on mental illness and mental health for an upcoming anthology, No Greater Agony.

The goal is to give voice to APIA women, whose stories and experiences with mental health and mental illness too often go untold. Here is some more information:

Man assaults Army officer at Walmart

This is a bizarre one... Last week in Albany, New York, police arrested a man for assaulting a member of the U.S. Armed Forces inside a Walmart: Army Captain assaulted at Wal-Mart.

On Thursday, 47-year-old Yiqiang Wu starting yelling at a uniformed U.S. Army Captain at the Walmart checkout register, making derogatory statements about the United States and his service to the country. He then struck him several time in the face. A surveillance camera caught video of the attack: