Mother Kills Autistic Son to End Fictional Abuse
Manhattan millionaire Gigi Jordan was found guilty on Nov. 5 of killing her 8-year-old autistic son last week. Jordan admitted killing her son, Jude Mirra, with a lethal dose of medications in a hotel room in February 2010.
However she claimed it was a mercy killing — not because her son had a poor quality of life due to autism — but because she feared that her ex-husband would get custody of the boy, and then torture and sexually abuse him, as she believed had happened for years.
Since her son was unable to verbally communicate because of his disability, Jordan relied on a technique called Facilitated Communication (FC), in which another person holds the disabled person’s hand as he or she types out messages on a keyboard.
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