Mother confesses to police: ‘I strangled my autistic daughter’


Officers from the Central Police Forensic Science Division and officials of the Poh Teck Tung Foundation found Yolawadee sitting and crying beside the body of her daughter.

BANGKOK: A single mother told police she strangled to death her 15-year-old autistic daughter on Monday because she could not afford to look after her.

Lieutenant Ukrit Suthirapong, deputy inspector of Thung Song Hong Police Station, went to an apartment rented by Yolawadee Suasermsiri, 52, in front of Klong Prem Central Prison after she called the station at about 3am.

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