A Champaign woman could have spent the rest of her life in a secure mental health center in Elgin after stabbing her two sons seven years ago, but now Ellen Feinberg can move out of that facility and into a halfway house.
Ellen Feinberg was sent to a mental health center on February 28th, 2002 after she repeatedly stabbed her sons Adam, 10, and Matthew, 6. Adam Feinberg died from his injuries, Matthew was sent to the hospital.
A judge found her not guilty of murder and attempted murder by reason of insanity ten months later, and ordered Feinberg to stay in the facility for as much as the rest of her life, where doctors could monitor her and send reports on her mental status to the court every two months.
Feinberg's defense attorney Steve Beckett filed a motion for her conditional release in January.
In a ruling this week Judge Michael Jones gave Feinberg permission to leave Elgin for a facility in Chicago.
