Husband's bail stays at $1M in drowning attempt; wife's condition 'grave'

By Peggy Wright • Daily Record • May 13, 2008

Bail was kept at $1 million this afternoon for an illegal alien from Ecuador who is charged with trying to kill his wife Friday — in front of their 8-year-old daughter — by holding her down in bathwater at their Morristown home.

Morris County Assistant Prosecutor Leslie Wade told Superior Court Judge Salem Vincent Ahto that the victim, 26-year-old Eliana Torres, is unconscious, in “grave conditionâ€