Woman Kills Daughter With Intellectual Disability Out Of Grief Over Condition

A woman has been accused of killing her daughter, who suffers from an intellectual disability, as she was upset about her child's health and condition in the western suburb of Andheri, Mumbai, India on Wednesday, June 15.

On Wednesday, June 15, the police received a phone call informing them that a woman had taken her own life at a residential building in the Sahar Road locality of Andheri, Mumbai, India.

After officers responded to the scene, they found the 19-year-old victim, identified as Vaishnavi Suresh, dead and her 41-year-old mother, Shraddha, sitting next to the body. The officers then sent the remains to Cooper Hospital and registered an accidental death report in connection with the incident, the Times Of India reported.

However, when investigating officers spotted ligature marks on the victim's neck, the police questioned the victim's family members. During the interrogation, the woman's mother initially denied killing her daughter. However, she later confessed that she had strangled her to death and fabricated the suicide. Shraddha claimed that she strangled her daughter to death as her child has had an intellectual disability since birth and that she was upset about her condition.

Following the confession, the officers arrested Shraddha under section 302 (murder) of the IPC (Indian Penal Code).

In a similar but unrelated incident, a woman who had been taking care of her paralyzed husband for the past 15 years allegedly slit the ailing man's throat and killed him in Kerala, India as she was finally fed up with looking after him, Latin Times reported.

After officers responded to their home on Tuesday morning, Oct. 19, 2021, they found the victim, identified as Gopi, 75, dead with his throat slashed and his wife Sumathy, 70, lying in an unconscious state.

Locals shortly helped rush the couple to a nearby hospital for immediate treatment. Sumathy, who regained her consciousness at the health facility, reportedly admitted to the doctor that she had killed her own husband as she had grown tired and frustrated of looking after her him, being his sole caretaker for the past 15 years.

The doctor subsequently informed the police about the incident. When the officers questioned Sumathy regarding Gopi's death, she immediately confessed to her husband's murder.