Siders 16 Kids: Her Attorney Claims She Can’t Understand WHAT?!
Published: September 21, 2026
Duration: 21:07
Elizabeth Siders’ attorney says she may not be competent to stand trial. He says she was married at 15, pregnant for two decades, and may not understand the wrongfulness of her own conduct. He’s requested both a competency evaluation and a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity evaluation.
On September 16, she pleaded not guilty to 23 charges — 19 child endangerment counts and four felony counts involving the alleged abuse of a minor relative who is not one of her 16 children. The alleged conduct happened in 2022, when Elizabeth was 29.
The record her defense has to overcome includes hospital deliveries in three Ohio cities, school...