Katherine McCarron’s mother a flight risk?

Karen McCarron, the Illinois pathologist charged with suffocating her autistic three-year-old daughter Katherine, was released from the Tazewell County Jail on June 9th. Her mother has posted 10 percent of the $1 million bond. As reported in a June 10th article in CBS2Chicago.com, Dr. McCarron’s attorneys and her father, Robert Frank, felt that Dr. McCarron needed more mental health treatment than she was receiving in jail.

Prosecutors have argued that McCarron, who has family in Germany and Argentina, posed a flight risk.

“We felt there was a flight risk and a risk to herself and hope that, now that she has posted bond, that neither of those developments will occur,” Tazewell County State’s Attorney Stewart Umholtz told the Journal Star.

McCarron is required to wear an electronic monitoring device while out on bail and also is not allowed to contact her remaining 2-year-old daughter.

Dr. McCarron pleaded “not guilty” on June 8th to two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of obstructing justice and one count of concealment of a homicidal death in [the] May 13 death of her daughter Katherine.

It hurts for me event to think of all the suffering the events of May 13th have brought on. If you have not been falling the discussion on this post about Katie McCarron, please read and please remember a three-year-old girl with—as her grandfather asks—”a smile and a prayer.”