US Marine Jailed Six Months in Mexico 'Highly Despondent,' Mom Says Danielle Haynes - UPI
go to original September 22, 2014

Mental health may free Marine in Mexico (CNN)

Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a U.S. Marine reservist currently jailed in Mexico," is "highly despondent," his mother said.

The 25-year-old was arrested in March after he said he mistakenly took three guns across the border into Mexico.

He's still sitting in the El Hongo Penitentiary in Tecate, Mexico, and his mother, Jill Tahmooressi, told CNN her son's mental state is deteriorating.

"He is lacking confidence that this will end soon and expeditiously," she said. "All we have ever asked for is an expeditious due process since he is a current Marine under contract until 2016. And the merits of the case surely point to accidental entry."

Jill Tahmooressi said her son's communication with the outside world has been limited in the last week or so after the prison phone broke.

"He has unresolved, or untreated PTSD, and he cannot get the cognitive therapy behavior that veterans of America receive ... in a Mexico jail, where there is no such thing," she added. "He's highly discouraged there is no light at the end of the tunnel."

...Tahmooressi faces up to 21 years in prison. His next court date is Sept. 29.

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