After hearing this story I sat here horrified, saddened to my core, and mad as hell.
There are numerous questions that are still unanswered.
Is this mother a monster? Does she suffer from a mental illness? or was she simply at the end of her rope and instead of calling out for help she took matters literally into her own hands and used them to kill her children?
I do not know the answers to these questions. And frankly, I don't think I care to know them. I don't care to hear her excuses or a doctor's diagnosis that she was "sick".
When I heard this story I saw her for what she was, a cold-blooded murderer of two innocent children.
I am sure additional stories will come out in which Akhter explains how she felt backed up against a wall and unable to handle either her children or their disorder, how she was ostracized by her family and her community for the ways her children behaved, or how she worried for their future and who would care for them for the rest of their lives after she was gone.
I DON'T CARE.
What I DO care about is justice. I want to see some Walker Texas Ranger style justice served on that woman.
I want justice for those two children, a young boy age 5 and his sister 2 years old, who were unable to comprehend what their mother, the woman who is supposed to nurture and protect them from anything that could ever hurt them, was about to do.
I want her put away for the rest of her life and if a court of law sees fit to end it sooner rather than later, then so be it.
I want this woman brought to her knees for what she has done. I don't want to hear about her getting her college degree in prison, how she is working hard with her lawyers to appeal her conviction or overturn her death sentence, and I especially don't want to see any live TV interviews with her in an orange jumpsuit crying fake tears to Barbara Walters looking for absolution for the innocent lives she shattered.
The only one who can offer her that is God.
And I believe that when she meets Him she will experience either His Forgiveness or the full wrath of His Judgment. Which one she will experience is entirely up to her.
Forgiveness from me and from all the other mothers and fathers raising children with autism?
That is not so easy to call.
I for one, am working on that.
