Competency in question for Las Vegas mom accused of drowning daughter

Linette Boedicker, accused of drowning her 2-year-old daughter in bathtub, appears at the Regional Justice Center on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Michael Quine/ Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Linette Boedicker, right, accused of drowning her 2-year-old daughter in bathtub, listens as her attorney Sarah Hawkins, left, addresses the court at the Regional Justice Center on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye

This undated Clark County Detention Center photo shows Linette Boedicker, of Las Vegas, following her arrest Saturday, May 11, 2019, on a murder charge in the death of her 2-year-old daughter. Police say Boedicker also uses the name Warrichiaet. A judge on Tuesday, May 14 set Boedicker’s bail at $1 million. She is accused of telling a 911 dispatcher she held the girl under water in a bathtub until she stopped breathing. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

Linette Boedicker, accused of drowning her 2-year-old daughter in bathtub, appears in court at the Regional Justice Center on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye

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May 29, 2019 - 11:48 am

Updated May 29, 2019 - 11:57 am

A Las Vegas judge has set a competency evaluation for a 44-year-old woman accused of intentionally drowning her 2-year-old daughter in an apartment bathtub.

Court records show that Linette Fay Boedicker was ordered during her preliminary hearing on Tuesday to go before a competency judge June 21 to determine if she understands the murder charge against her.

Boedicker’s court-appointed lawyer, Sarah Hawkins, didn’t immediately respond Wednesday to messages.

Hawkins has said she’ll challenge police accounts that Boedicker drowned Kiersten Linette Boedicker on May 11 while her husband was at work.

Boedicker also uses the name Warrichaiet.

Police say she called 911 with the child in the bathtub, and officers found the child still in the water.

The Clark County coroner determined the child drowned and ruled the death a homicide.

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