CLEVELAND — Editor’s note: The allegations described in this article are disturbing in nature.
A Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court judge has found that two children charged in connection with the sexual and physical assault of a 5-year-old girl are not currently competent to stand trial, but ordered both into treatment aimed at restoring their competency.
Judge Kristin Sweeney issued the findings March 31, following competency hearings held in late March. The two juvenile defendants — a 9-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl — each face nine counts, including attempted murder, rape and strangulation. They were charged following a Cleveland police investigation into a September 2025 incident in which a mother reported her 5-year-old daughter had been sexually and physically assaulted by other children and then abandoned in a field…