Police: Autism was motive in Colo. child's killing

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

(06-08) 09:45 PDT Boulder, Colo. (AP) --

Police say a woman accused of killing her infant son did it because she believed the boy was autistic and thought his condition would "ruin" her life.

Stephanie Rochester, 34, was charged Monday with murder in the June 1 suffocation death of her 6-month-old son, Rylan. According to an affidavit seeking her arrest, Rochester wanted to commit suicide but didn't want to "burden her husband" with the potentially autistic boy.

The affidavit says that the night before the infant died, Stephanie and Lloyd Rochester "talked about how they wanted to have fun in life."

"Stephanie said that she knew they would not have fun while they were caring for a severely autistic child," according to the affidavit, written by Boulder County sheriff's Detective Mark Spurgeon.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/08/national/a092427D70.DTL&tsp=1

Well she can have lots and lots of "fun" in prison. Hopefully for a long time.