Her favorite phrase was “I love you”: Catalyst article on Katie McCarron

The July-August issue of The Catalyst, the newsletter of the Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities in Illinois, has a long article simply entitled Katie McCarron by Jessica Hayes. The article discusses the May 13th killing of Katie McCarron by her mother, Dr. Karen McCarron, as well as discussing the killings of other disabled children—Lexus Fuller, Tracy Latimer, and Charles-Antoine Blais—by their parents.

A full account of what happened on May 13th to Katie McCarron is detailed in the story, as well as some very compelling statements by Mike McCarron, Katie’s paternal grandfather. Please read the article for these—I would just like to cite here this description of the little girl who was Katie McCarron.

Among Katie’s favorite things were her Teletubbies, plastic farm animals, playing on the swing set and being outside. Like many children with autism, verbal skills were difficult for Katie to master, but at age three her favorite phrase was “I love you.” Michael McCarron said she would line up all of her dolls and Teletubbies and happily babble to each of them. Katie was the first student in her preschool class to correctly identify an octagon.

Katie McCarron’s ” favorite phrase was ‘I love you.’”