SchaferAutismReport: Prosecutors: McCarron Obsessed With Cure For Daughter's Autism

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DEADLINE For February Autism Events CalendarFriday - January 25 !Submit listing here free! JANUARY CALENDAR of EVENTS!PEOPLEProsecutors: McCarron Obsessed With Cure For Daughter's Autism By Associated Press tinyurl.com/38t9vj Pekin -- A former pathologist accused of suffocating her 3-year-old autistic daughter with a garbage bag alternated between being obsessed with finding a cure for the little girl and wanting to put her up for adoption, the woman’s weeping husband testified Monday. “All ever thought about was finding a cure for the autism,” McCarron said during the opening day of McCarron’s murder trial at Tazewell County Circuit Court in Pekin, just southwest of Peoria. When he arrived home after McCarron died, McCarron said he found his wife locked in a bathroom, the Pekin Daily Times and the (Peoria) Journal Star reported. After kicking the door open he found McCarron on the floor with cuts to her wrists and Tylenol pills on the counter. McCarron said “I hurt ” before she handed over her engagement ring, McCarron told the jury of eight men and four women. McCarron, 39, of Morton, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of first-degree murder, a count of obstructing justice and one count of concealment of a homicidal death in the May 13, 2006, death of her daughter . McCarron, who has been free on bond since 2006, has been found mentally fit to stand trial. But a medical expert hired by her attorneys said McCarron was insane at the time of the killing. McCarron’s mental fitness will loom large the trial, defense attorney Marc Wolfe said during his opening statement Monday. “She is a woman who has dealt with life stresses. What we have to ultimately remember is what happened on May 13 and what her state of mind was on that day, not what her state of mind was three weeks before or after the crime,” Wolfe said. The videotaped confession McCarron made to police is also inconsistent with physical evidence, Wolfe said. But McCarron told Morton police detectives she “just wanted autism out of my life” and was obsessed with the condition, Tazewell County Assistant State’s Attorney Kirk Schoenbein said in his opening statement. McCarron allegedly killed her daughter after she tried to find multiple schools and treatments for the child, Schoenbein said. “But the treatment was not going to make the autism go away. So she found another way,” he said. McCarron placed the trash bag used to suffocate the girl in a trash can at her mother’s house, but later moved it to a gas station restroom after thinking police might find it in its original location, Schoenbein said. McCarron, a Caterpillar Inc. engineer who filed for divorce after his daughter’s death, also testified Monday that McCarron began seeing a psychologist for stress while training as a resident in Cleveland. He said she told him she’d had suicidal thoughts after being prescribed an antidepressant. She stopped taking the medication in the months before ’s death, he said. McCarron often mentioned giving up for adoption, but McCarron said his answer was always the same. “No way in hell,” he said. “She’s my daughter."

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