Woman jailed for killing autistic son, 12, with bleach

A mother has been jailed for killing her 12-year-old autistic son by making him drink bleach.

Ajit Singh-Mahal was found dead at the family home in Barking, east London, in February.

Satpal Kaur-Singh, 44, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility. She had denied the boy’s murder.

Kaur-Singh, who also drank bleach on the day of the killing, was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey.

Judge Peter Beaumont, the Recorder of London, told her: “I recognise how difficult Ajit was to care for.

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25 Comments

  1. GAL
    April 2, 2011

    SHE SHOULD NOT KILL THE CHILD. IF SHE THINKS HE OR SHE WAS TOO MUCH TO HANDLE
    SHE SHOULD SEEK HELP FROM THE AUTHORITY. SHE TOOK MATTERS INTO IN HANDS IS \WRONG

  2. oye
    April 1, 2011

    this is serious… not only the child need medical care but the lady needs as well.. she need to be sent to the hospital..

    • honey baby
      April 2, 2011

      CHILD IS DEAD WHY DOES HE NEEDS MEDICAL CARE???????

  3. N.J
    April 1, 2011

    Sew her vajayjay with a fish hook.

    • Brain Damage
      April 1, 2011

      Why not with a fish bone

  4. mudd
    April 1, 2011

    Stop judging people. We don’t know how it is to raise a child with this problem. We have normal kids and we go crazy with muchless for a sick child. We also abuse our children with belts when they get us mad and they are normal. So think twice before posting comments because we don’t know when we will snapp.

    • echoe
      April 1, 2011

      Hello my dear
      If you can’t raise the child put the child in a home or something. That doesn’t give her any right to kill the child ok. everyone deserves a chance to live no matter their condition.
      My mother has a son who is retard as they say. And he is nothing easy to take care of. She has been taking care of him for 33 years now and he is nothing easy to take care of. If you no the kind of things he does, you would never believe. So she had no right to kill that child.

    • tiny
      April 1, 2011

      thats right, they think they so much better, they abuse their kids on a daily basis, and that is the same set of peopleacitng so appaulled at such news. hypocritessssssssssss

      • echoe
        April 1, 2011

        well if you are agreeing to this lets wish you luck in the future. And nobody said they were better ok. But if are not GOD that gives you no right to take a life ok. I would wan to see how you 2 treat your kids.

      • The German Lover.
        April 1, 2011

        Wow…. amazing!!!! It is difficult for people to raise such children, but there are other people willing to help with such child, and they deserve normal lives… more than half of autistic children have some special gift. And it’s amazing to me that you agree with killing the child…and STOP LOOKING ON OTHERS!!!! and start looking at yourself… if i had to jump of a plane without a parachute you wouldn’t have jump too

        • Mudd
          April 2, 2011

          oh ho, so where were you when your sister need your help with t he kids

    • sian
      April 1, 2011

      @mudd

      we don’t know when we will snap? Oh please
      Are you saying it is write that once a child is frustrating you, your last resort as a MOTHER is to kill your flesh and blood? I guess your brains is either in your bottom or its buried in the MUDD
      having a child comes with all that. Based on her statements she surely doesn’t sound mentally ill. If she couldn’t care for her child she could have done something totally different.

      • sian
        April 1, 2011

        right* that was a typo

    • Brain Damage
      April 1, 2011

      Mudd, you think when frustrated mothers get pregnant they should abort their young ones. Hope your mum did not think that way because you would not be here today.

      • Mudd
        April 2, 2011

        my fello Dominicans. Did I say that I agreed with what the mother did? NO. English is the key here. Is not all mothers that can take the STRREESSSS thats the topic here.

    • Charmer
      April 1, 2011

      Everyone is different, some persons have higher tolerance levels than others. It is not that difficult for someone to snap.

    • J Vidal
      April 2, 2011

      i know where ure coming from….
      however this is no way to justify the acts of the mother

      • NUINE
        April 4, 2011

        I just think it was an act of love, yes it is wrong but being with her ill child and seeing how the child suffered from day to day could cause that. Have any of u had a loved one who is in suffering everyday, if not its not easy seeing them in pain. She could have given him up but would you? I think the fact that she tried to kill herself along with the child speaks for itself! She just wanted it all to end! It’s a sad case and no one is to blame or argued about. It’s about time u dominicans learn that not everthing needs to be argued and if u have nothing positive to say about someone or thier condition then don’t say anthing at all! GOD HELP U ALL>>>>

  5. what?
    April 1, 2011

    why do people always want to run away from their responsibilities? i mean the child didn’t ask you to get pregnant. You did your thing on your own. Seven years isn’t enough.

  6. wdmc!
    April 1, 2011

    beat her!

  7. Way Way
    April 1, 2011

    What does this has to do with Dominica ?

    Admin: Does the New York Times write only about New York? Does the Jerusalem Post write only about Jerusalem? Get the drift? We are a news organization and we carry news from all over the world.

    • Agreed
      April 1, 2011

      Bravo Admin. Worlds News… Stop being domestic, but rather think Global. Dominica is part of the world, not just of the Caribbean.

    • tiny
      April 1, 2011

      who are the dislike for? adin reponse or way way post.

      my like is for admn response

      • Brain Damage
        April 1, 2011

        Admin. they should be happy reading a FREE news paper.
        If Way way is not satisfied, buy your Chronicle.

    • yessa
      April 4, 2011

      @way way….dont you know that Dominca have austistic children too????…..well we do!!! we just dont have many avenues here to help mothers with autistic children to cope….cause i have an autistic child and its not an easy thing to deal with….but there is no way am gonna kill my son…children with autism are extremely intelligent and they have special skills that no one can imagine. have u seen the movie about temple gradin?

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