BOSTON (AP) - A judge has ordered a mental health evaluation for a Winthrop woman charged with hitting a pedestrian on a sidewalk while driving drunk with her two children in her minivan.
Thirty-seven-year-old Cerisse Bomarsi was arraigned Friday in East Boston Municipal Court on charges including operating under the influence and child endangerment.
Authorities say Bomarsi drove into a 62-year-old woman on a sidewalk in Winthrop Thursday afternoon. The woman was brought to a hospital with significant leg injuries and cuts to her face.
Police say Bomarsi smelled of alcohol and was slurring her speech.
Bomarsi’s lawyer, William Gens, says police never checked Bomarsi’s blood-alcohol level and didn’t give her a field sobriety test. He says it’s not clear whether Thursday’s events were related to her longstanding mental health problems.
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