Two days later, in the hospital's intensive care unit, Morales admitted to police that Mailer had stabbed her; he was arrested at the hospital, and involuntarily committed for seventeen days to Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation by a judge who pronounced him "both homicidal and suicidal."[REF][REF]
Though Morales divorced him in 1962, she refused to press charges, citing a desire to protect their children [REF].