Remembering the Disabled Murdered by Caregivers
Part or all of the person’s name is not known.
Name Unknown.
Died: May 13, 2018.
Age at death: 66.
Cause of death: Gunshot.
Location: Garden Grove, California, USA.
Disability: Chronic illness; wheelchair user.
Details:
This 66-year-old man was shot to death by his stepfather in a murder-suicide.
Case status:
His 85-year-old stepfather, deceased.
Source:
85-Year-Old Man Shoots, Kills Wheelchair-Bound Stepson
Police investigate murder-suicide of elderly man and stepson in Garden Grove
Name Unknown.
Died: February 19, 2018.
Age at death: 5.
Cause of death: Strangulation.
Location: Seoul, South Korea.
Disability: Developmental disability, speech delay.
Details:
This five-year-old girl’s mother allegedly strangled her while doing an exorcism ritual to try to cure the developmental disability that was causing her daughter’s speech delay.
Case status:
Her mother, surnamed Choi, age 37, arrested on suspicion of murder.
Source:
Mother kills 5-year-old daughter in exorcism rite, police say
Name Unknown.
Age at death: 14.
Name Unknown.
Age at death: 11.
Died: January 9, 2018.
Cause of death: Strangled/suffocated.
Location: Bjärred, Lomma Municipality, Sweden.
Disability: Myalgic encephalopathy.
Details:
These two sisters lived with their parents. Both had chronic fatigue syndrome and were home-schooled. When the younger girl was diagnosed, her parents began planning to kill the whole family. Months later, they carried out a murder-suicide by strangling both girls and then killing themselves.
The 11-year-old girl took piano lessons. Her 14-year-old sister was intellectually curious and liked learning.
Case Status:
Inquest concluded; murder-suicide committed by their parents.
Source:
Morden i Bjärred – Elisabet Höglund söker svar i ny bok
Döttrarna i Bjärred hade fått diagnosen ME – föräldrarna valde att avsluta deras liv
Morden i Bjärred – Elisabet Höglund söker svar i ny bok
Nu berättar polisen: Här är vad som hände familjen i Bjärred
Faktafel i boken morden i Bjärred.
Polisen: Fynd i villan kan förklara vad som hänt
Barnen i Bjärred led av ME – föräldrarna tog beslut att avsluta familjens liv
Barnen i Bjärred ströps/kvävdes till döds av sina föräldrar. Föräldrarna hade planerat morden i flera månader utan att barnen anat något!
Name Unknown.
Died: January 4, 2018.
Age at death: 40.
Cause of death: Gunshot.
Location: Be’er Sheva, Israel.
Disability: Unspecified; wheelchair user.
Details:
This 40-year-old woman was shot in the head by her father, who then committed suicide.
Case status:
Her father, deceased.
Source:
Man and daughter found dead in home in what cops say is a murder-suicide
Israeli Man, disabled daughter found dead is suspected murder-suicide
חשד: אב רצח את בתו הנכה בבאר שבע והתאבד
Israeli man, disabled daughter found dead in suspected murder-suicide
Israeli man and disabled daughter found dead in suspected murder-suicide
Name Unknown.
Died: Unknown; news report of trial dated November 9, 2018.
Age at death: 73.
Cause of death: Burns.
Location: Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia.
Disability: Unspecified mobility impairment.
Details:
This 73-year-old woman’s daughter-in-law got angry at her, so she allegedly put her in the bath and turned on the hot water. The elderly woman was taken to the hospital and died there of severe burns covering half her body. Her grandchildren, who were too small to help her, had to listen to her cries for help.
Case status:
Her 39-year-old daughter-in-law, charged with causing grave health damage leading to death.
Name: Yuk-Kwai Liu.
Died: October 8, 2017.
Age at death: 77.
Cause of death: Knife wounds.
Location: Kwai Chung, Hong Kong.
Disability: Chronic illness (heart and kidney disease; arthritis), wheelchair user.
Details:
Ms. Liu’s son decided it was “too tough” to take care of her, so he allegedly stabbed her to death.
Case status:
Mr. Lee (Son), charged with murder.
Source:
Woman, 77, found dead at home after son jumps from window
Suicide bid of son fails as mom found hacked dead
Man, 34, arrested in killing of ill mother
Name: Dominique (last name unknown).
Died: August 30, 2017.
Age at death: 8.
Cause of death: Strangled.
Location: Elda, Alicante, Spain.
Disability: Autism, epilepsy.
Details:
Dominique lived with his foster father and his foster father’s girlfriend. While the foster father was at work, his girlfriend strangled Dominique with a T-shirt; then she staged a home invasion and claimed she and the boy had been assaulted.
Inconsistencies in her story made the truth come out, and she was convicted of murder.
Case status:
Alejandra G. P. (foster father’s girlfriend), convicted of murder, sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Source:
Prisión permanente revisable para la mujer que asesinó al hijo de acogida de su pareja
Las tres muertes de Dominique
«El niño de Elda murió estrangulado y la acusada sabía lo que hacía»
SHOCK CRIME: Woman on trial over autistic boy killing on the Costa Blanca
Pregnant woman raped while her 8-year-old boy murdered
8-year-old autistic boy murdered in Alicante as the killers raped his father’s pregnant partner
Child found dead, woman beaten, inside home in Spanish coastal town
Child’s murder and beating of pregnant woman shocks inland Spanish town
Investigan la muerte de un niño de 8 años y la agresión a la novia del padre de acogida
Investigan en Elda la muerte de un niño de 8 años y la agresión a la novia del padre de acogida
Elda despide con gran dolor al niño fallecido en el asalto a su piso
La Fiscalía pide prisión permanente revisable para la acusada de matar al hijo de su pareja en Elda
La fiscalía pide prisión permanente revisable para la acusada de asesinar en Elda al hijo de su pareja
Fiscalía pide prisión permanente revisable para la acusada de matar al hijo de su pareja en Elda
Piden la prisión permanente a la mujer que mató al hijo de su pareja en Elda
La fiscal reclama prisión permanente para la acusada de matar al hijo de su pareja en Elda
Piden prisión permanente revisable a la acusada de asesinar a un niño autista
Fiscalía pide prisión permanente revisable para la acusada de asesinar en Elda (Alicante) al hijo de su pareja
Name Unknown.
Died: August 6, 2017.
Age at death: 5.
Cause of death: Fatal abuse.
Location: Jahra, Kuwait.
Disability: Special needs.
Details:
For two months, this five-year-old girl was beaten and burned by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend because they “wanted to get rid of her” and resented her for the attention she needed. She died from a particularly vicious beating, and only then did her mother finally call the police, claiming that her daughter had fallen from a window.
Case status:
Mother and mother’s boyfriend, both convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.
Source:
Boyfriend, woman hearing adjourned in disabled girl’s killing
Woman, boyfriend sentenced to death in disabled girl’s murder
Mother, boyfriend sentenced to death for killing special-needs daughter
Kuwaiti mother sentenced to death for murdering her disabled daughter
Kuwaiti mother and boyfriend kill 5-year-old daughter, get death sentence
Kuwait Sentences Mother, Boyfriend to Death for Killing Daughter with Special Needs
Five year old girl murdered by mother and her boyfriend
Name: “Child D”.
Died: July 2, 2017.
Age at death: Less than 1 year.
Cause of death: Neglect.
Location: Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Disability: Spina bifida.
Details:
Child D, who cannot be named for confidentiality reasons, was born a twin; her twin was non-disabled. Because of her spina bifida, she needed to use a catheter to urinate, and her parents were taught to do this while she was in the hospital. Her family was known to social services.
Toward the end of her life, hospital staff noticed she was growing thin, and she was treated for a urinary tract infection. In the hospital, her father was observed not to be catheterizing the baby girl. At a medical appointment, professionals noted that she was “not her smiley self”.
When she was less than a year old, Child D was brought to the hospital unresponsive and declared dead. Authorities found her five siblings poorly cared for and her home badly kept. They concluded that Child D had been catheterized only intermittently, and that she had died due to the poor care given her by her parents.
Case Status:
Her parents were charged.
Sources:
Severly disabled baby girl found dead in Glasgow home was not properly cared for by parents, review found
Severely disabled ‘smiley’ Scots baby dies after being neglected by parents
Significant Case Review: Child D
Name Unknown.
Died: May 16, 2017.
Age at death: 83.
Cause of death: Dehydration/malnutrition.
Location: Milford, Connecticut, USA.
Disability: Dementia.
Details:
This 83-year-old woman’s grandmother visited her and saw her chapped, bleeding lips, and called the police to ask for a welfare check. When the police arrived, they found the woman dead, and a medical examiner determined that she had died from dehydration and malnutrition. She had also been drugged with antidepressants.
Case Status:
Michael O’Connell (Son), pleaded no contest to negligent cruelty; given a 9-month suspended jail sentence and 2 years probation.
Sources:
Milford man pleads no contest to negligent cruelty charge in mother’s 2017 death
Milford man pleads no contest to negligent cruelty charge in mother’s 2017 death