Mother accused of killing autistic daughter
May 17, 2006 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
This is beyond sad. The Peoria Journal Star reports:
Authorities Tuesday would not discuss a motive for McCarron allegedly suffocating her 3-year-old daughter, Katherine, but they confirmed the girl had a history of autism.
“The news saddened me, but didn’t surprise me,” [Sue] Grimm [the mother of two autistic children] said.
Just as sad—if not terrifying, awful, terrible (I’m not sure I have words to describe all this), is that one of the mothers in the Autism Every Day video talks about how she once considered driving off the George Washington Bridge with her daughter in the car.
And that’s the danger of the Autism Every Day video, which chronicles the difficulties of life with an autistic child without showing how much our kids can learn.
How much hope there is.
Kassiane has a lot more to say about it all.
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Check out what others are saying about this post...[...] And we have the murder of three-year-old Katherine McCarron by her mother as terrible proof positive–negative-about the harming in the name of “teaching”; the abuse; the murder of autistics. We have public outpourings of pity for family members who (even if they contemplate murder and suicide) are glorified for their “suffering” in raising an autistic child, while the greatest suffering–and misunderstanding at the hands of everyone–is in the child’s. [...]
[...] is expected to last for a week and a half. I first posted about Katherine McCarron’s death on May 17, 2006 and have since written regularly about her. The case has generated a lot of feeling among anyone [...]