YOUNGSTOWN — Stacie A. Gilmore, 50, of East Warren Avenue, was ruled competent Tuesday to stand trial in a kidnapping case in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

The last time she was in court before Judge Anthony Donofrio, in September, he ordered her to be taken to a state mental hospital in Massillon to be evaluated to determine whether she was competent to stand trial on charges of kidnapping and child endangering.

She had been free on bond at the time of the September hearing but she failed to complete an earlier attempt to evaluate her, so the judge ordered that Gilmore be taken into custody so court officials could ensure that she would be available for the testing.

At the hearing in September, Gilmore told the judge she was falsely arrested in May of 2023.

“For now, the only way we are going to be able to determine (where Gilmore can properly aid her attorney in defense of your case) is if you go to Heartland Behavioral Center and have an evaluation that is sanctioned by law that I just cited, and that’s what we are going to do,” the judge said at the time.

Gilmore was secretly indicted in October of 2023 on kidnapping involving a child in a “continuing course of conduct” from October 2016 through May of 2023, according to her indictment and county prosecutors. Daniel Yozwiak, assistant county prosecutor, said he cannot discuss the allegations in any greater detail.

The indictment alleges Gilmore removed the child from the place where he was found or restrained the child’s liberty for the purpose of committing endangering against the child.

The felony child-endangering charge alleges that during the same years as the alleged kidnapping, Gilmore “did torture or cruelly abuse” the child.

If convicted of the kidnapping, Gilmore could get more than 10 years in prison. The felony child endangering could add more prison time. Gilmore is also indicted on charges of misdemeanor child endangering.