Second Competency Evaluation for Grandmother Charged in Infant Slaying 'Not Ready'

Photo: Alfreda Giedrojc, 64 | Cook County Sheriff

The reading of a second psychological evaluation ordered by the attorney representing an Oak Lawn grandmother accused of murdering her 6-month-old granddaughter was not read in court because the psychologist had not yet “deduced his findings in writing.”

A pale Alfreda Giedrojc appeared in Judge Colleen Hyland’s courtroom on Friday for a status hearing to hear the results of a “second opinion” to determine her fitness to stand trial.

Giedrojc, 64, is facing a first-degree murder charge for the slaying of her infant granddaughter, Vivian Summers, in October 2013. Police say the grandmother bludgeoned the baby with a sledgehammer, and then slit the girl’s throat when she would not stop moving.

Assistant public defender Michael Wilson told the judge and Cook County prosecutor Michael Deeno that he was scheduled to speak Friday afternoon with Dr. Robert Hanlon, a private neuropsychologist based in Chicago.

The court reversed an earlier ruling finding Giedrojc unfit to stand trial, but after year’s treatment at a state-run psychiatric facility Giedrojc had been “restored to fitness.”

After Friday’s hearing, Wilson said that Dr. Hanlon had yet to share his findings of Giedrojc’s second evaluation.

“He hasn’t given me anything, he hasn’t told me anything,” the assistant public defender said. “He’s doing a thorough job. That’s what I’m paying him for.”

Wilson expected the case to be resolved before the end of next summer.

“The state and I are reasonable gentlemen,” Wilson said. “We’re not trying to sandbag each other.”

He said unless Giedrojc told him otherwise, he was preparing for a jury trial.

“We’ll be looking for twelve people who have never heard of the case,” Wilson said. “The media is not the fair, impartial party that it used to be. Stories are written now to produce views. We just want a fair trial.”

Giedrojc is due back in court on Dec. 15 in Bridgeview.