In letters to judge, mom indicted in Everman boy’s killing writes of ‘mind reader’
In 12 pages of meandering, often incoherent letters addressed to a judge, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh broods over her life in jail and describes desperation.
It is not clear whether the observations of Rodriguez-Singh, who is under indictment on capital murder in the killing of her 6-year-old son Noel and was last month found incompetent to stand trial, are grounded in reality.
In one of three handwritten letters, Rodriguez-Singh begs state District Judge Julie Lugo, who this week recused herself from the case for a reason that is not clear, for help.
Rodriguez-Singh wrote that officers sexually abused her and used a “brain/mind reader.”
“Their (sic) doing really bad things to me,” Rodriguez-Singh, who is 41, wrote before again referring to a mind-reading device.
“They have on something to make my heart beat,” she continued.
A psychologist concluded in a report filed on April 2 that Rodriguez-Singh is incompetent to stand trial. She was ordered admitted to a maximum-security unit at a state hospital for an attempt at competency restoration.
The psychologist, whose precise diagnosis is not clear, appears to have determined either that Rodriguez-Singh does not have sufficient ability to consult with her lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding or that she does not have a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings and charge against her. The report appears to have been filed under seal.
Rodriguez-Singh is alleged to have in 2022 or 2023 killed Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, whose remains law enforcement authorities found in an Everman backyard this week.
The excavated remains were discovered outside the little boy’s former home about three years after it was clear to authorities that he was missing.
The letters were filed in the district clerk’s record of the case on April 21 and May 6. Rodriguez-Singh does not appear to mention Noel in the letters.
Rodriguez-Singh, who was a fugitive before she was arrested last year in India, has a bond set at $10 million. In one of the letters, she raises the matter of a significant reduction.
“I’m writing because I want the consideration of a [personal recognizance] bond,” she wrote.
The letters include Rodriguez-Singh’s descriptions of her living conditions. “They put toilet water in my sink and the faucet [unclear],” she wrote. “They have put things in my food,” she began another sentence.
Rodriguez-Singh wrote that she was under hospice care for cancer and wrote of an “evil plot they were doing to me.”
“Someone threw feces in my food while in Tarrant County Jail. I had stage 4 cancer while in jail,” Rodriguez-Singh wrote. “Due to all of this pain they put me in hospice in Tarrant Co Jail and then to JPS Hospital and there they moved me from medical floor to my housing in jail and the physical pain [unclear] me to go to court because of the pain.”
