SINGAPORE: A woman, who was the primary caregiver of her seven-year-old autistic son, pushed him out the kitchen window of their ninth-floor Tampines flat after she was seized by thoughts that he was the reason for her exhaustion and marital problems.
The 43-year-old woman was sentenced yesterday to five years’ jail after she pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for killing the younger of her two sons in September 2014, one day before her 42nd birthday.
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