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Mom Confesses She Killed Autistic Child

PEKIN, Ill. - A woman accused of killing her autistic daughter

testified Friday that she attempted to suffocate the 3-year-old with

a pillow three days before she succeeded with a plastic garbage bag.

McCarron said she couldn't go through with it using the pillow.

When prosecutor asked her how long she held the bag

over the toddler's head soon after, she replied about two minutes -

until little stopped struggling.

In a videotaped confession played in court Thursday, McCarron said

she began having thoughts of hurting her daughter a year before the

May 2006 slaying but put them out of her mind. On the day of the

killing, though, the thoughts were stronger than ever.

" They were so intense, " McCarron said.

McCarron, 39, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murder,

obstructing justice and concealment of a homicidal death. She was

found mentally fit to stand trial, but a medical expert hired by her

attorneys has said she was insane at the time of the killing.

The trial resumes Monday.

McCarron, a former pathologist, testified she felt responsible for

's autism because she allowed the child to get vaccinated.

It " brought me a great deal of guilt, " she said.

Using a plastic bag and the prosecutor's arm, McCarron demonstrated

for jurors in Tazewell County Circuit Court how she placed a bag over

her daughter's head and pushed her to her knees, the (Peoria) Journal

Star and the Pekin Daily Times reported.

" Were you able to see her face as she fell to the floor? " asked.

" Yes. I could see her face through the trash bag, " McCarron answered.

McCarron said she listened for a heartbeat after stopped

struggling.

" I just put my ear to her chest, " McCarron said. " I heard one, then I

heard nothing. "

The child had scratch marks on her head and bite marks were found

inside her mouth and on the bag as she apparently tried to free

herself, according to other testimony.

The taped confession was made while McCarron was hospitalized after

attempting suicide, investigators said. Wearing a hospital gown, she

appears sitting on a bed next to her husband, McCarron.

McCarron said she killed her child hoping to " fix her " and give

her peace in heaven.

" Maybe I could fix her this way, and in heaven she would be

complete, " she said on the tape.

McCarron said on the videotape that she took her daughter's

body back to her own house and put her in bed. She then went to the

store, bought ice cream and returned to her mother's home to get the

garbage bag because, " if things get bad, their house would be searched. "

Interviewers asked McCarron if she knew what she did was criminally

wrong.

" I have enough education to know that, " she answered.

McCarron told police she felt like a failure because of the child's

autism and was sad and hurt because the child couldn't interact with

her very well.

" I loved very much, but I hated the autism so, so much, "

McCarron said. " I hated what it was doing to her. ... I just wanted

autism out of my life. "