【2010.7.22 澳洲新闻网】Texas mum killed kids because they were autistic

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http://www.news.com.au/world/tex ... rfkyi-1225895484129

A TEXAS mother who strangled her two children earlier this week told an emergency services operator she did so because they were both autistic and she wanted normal children.  

Police said 30-year-old Saiqa Akhter from Irving strangled 5-year-old Zain and 2-year-old Faraal.

She then called 911, myFOXdfw.com said. She can be heard in an audio recording of that call repeating, "I kill my both kids. They are died".

Mrs Akhter also told the operator that she tried to make the children drink bathroom cleaner, but they wouldn't swallow. So instead she wrapped wire around their necks until "they are no more".

"I know the policeman come to pick me," she said.

When the operator asked Mrs Akhter why she did it, she explained both her children were autistic.

"Both are autistic. I don't want my kids to be like that. I want normal kids," she said.

"I don't want my kids to be autistic. I kill both of them."

Paramedics who arrived at Mrs Akhter's apartment on Monday evening found the children blue and unconscious in a bedroom.

Zain was pronounced dead at the hospital. His little sister Faraal was taken off life support yesterday morning.

Mrs Akhter now faces capital murder charges.

"It looks like she had mental problems. I don't understand why she did it," Wasimul Haque, an uncle of Mrs Akhter, told The Dallas Morning News.

He said the children's father, Rashid Akhter, is "totally broken" and is so distraught that he's been unable to talk.

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