Mental exam ordered for Indiana mom who suffocated her kids

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - A judge has ordered a mental competency exam for an Indiana woman who pleaded guilty but mentally ill in the suffocation deaths of her two children and who is charged in the fatal shooting of a neighbor.

Thirty-year-old Amber Pasztor, of Fort Wayne, tried to waive her rights to an attorney and to plead guilty to murder Monday in the killing of 66-year-old Frank Macomber last year. However, the Allen County judge ordered her to undergo a mental competency exam and entered a temporary plea of not guilty on her behalf.

An Elkhart County judge last month ordered Pasztor to receive mental health treatment before she begins a 130-year sentence for killing her children, who were ages 6 and 7.