Alex Spourdalakis

[conuly]

He was murdered by his mother a month ago, but I'm just hearing about it now. Clearly I haven't been paying enough attention.

The same ninnies are advising us all not to judge her, after all, raising an autistic kid is so hard. To which I say the same as I always inevitably do: fuck it. The bare minimum of parenting (and let's face it, this is a pretty low bar) is that you don't kill your own child. Or at least, you don't do it on purpose. How much more basic can we get here?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mother-murders-severely-autistic-son-cops-article-1.1371310

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[redbird]

Orac discussed this at some length over at Respectful Insolence last month, including that it's not clear that the mother actually wanted or expected to kill herself, rather than to gain sympathy by making this look like "attempted murder/suicide" rather than "killed son rather than risk losing control over his life." That post has a bunch of back story the Daily News article doesn't. (I don't expect depth from the News, though, and Orac tends to loquacity.)

[conuly]

Thanks.