Catalina Bruno, on trial for the death of her child after being left in a locked car, suffers from postpartum depression, and her lawyer says she is in great need of mental health assistance.
Bruno was diagnosed with the postpartum depression nine weeks after Bryan’s birth last year, lawyer Lonnie Richardson told a judge Monday. But Bruno had stopped taking the medication after her pills ran out, he said.
“I’m talking to her and I’m seeing someone who is a shell of a human being,” Richardson told Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Samantha Ruiz-Cohen. “She’s very sick and she needs help.”
