Crofton Father Pleads Guilty In Stabbing Wife, Daughters

A Crofton man pleaded guilty Thursday to slashing the throats of his wife and two teenage daughters last summer.

Julio Cesar Esquetini, 50, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree assault and one count of child abuse in the county courthouse in Annapolis. But a state doctor found Esquetini not criminally responsible for the attack and a county judge had him committed to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene indefinitely.

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