Mother to 911 -'I killed my kids'

Saiqa Akhter, 30, wore handcuffs and a green jumpsuit and said nothing as deputies escorted her to Dallas County jail just before 7 p.m. Wednesday.
She has already been charged in the strangulation of her son, Zain, 5. Charges are pending in the strangulation of her daughter, Faryaal, 3.
Hours before she was booked into jail, the 911 call Akhter made on Monday evening was released, revealing her confession.
"They are autistic," she told an operator. "Both are autistic... I don't want my kids to be like that. I want normal kids."
"My heart just kind of goes into my knees," said Nagla Moussa, president of the National Autism Association of North Texas.
It's a network of parents struggling to raise children with the disorder.
"When you have a child with autism, you're constantly thinking: 'What's going to happen to this child when I'm no longer around? Who will be taking care of him or her?'" Moussa said.
Akhter called 911 from her Irving apartment Monday and calmly told an operator she used a wire to strangle her six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter.
But she also revealed what else she had done to them minutes earlier.
"First I tried to kill them with bathroom cleaner," Akhter said in the 911 call. "I put in their mouth, but they don't drink it. I want them to drink it. They don't drink it, so there's a wire there, so I just grabbed their neck and then I tried so many times, and then they're no more."
Parents of autistic children think Akhter lost hope, and likely felt isolated and perhaps ostracized.
Mara LaViola should know. Her son, Zach, suffers from autism.
"I wish I could convey to you what it is like to raise a child on the spectrum who is escaping the house," LaViola said. "You find them on top of your kitchen cabinets. Breaking things. Throwing things. Most of the time it's because they're trying to communicate and they're not able to."
What's still unclear is whether Akhter reached out — and why no one intervened.

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[Pearlshines1]

I'm sure her kids wanted a normal mother 

[daniandjay11]

i hope this fucking bitch goes to hell how fucked up do u have to be to do this i feel bad for the husband

[200puppy7]

@brittanyverjes1 i am autistic but i don't have the violent kind

[roxyhotty556]

bitch! my brothers autistic and hes the best!

[brittanyverjes1]

@SarahWalsh95

I apologize if I offended you.

[SarahWalsh95]

@brittanyverjes1 "Autistic kids are terrible" woah. ok. Once you have met one autistic child.. you have met one autistic child. We are all different! You may think your sister is terrible because of the way SHE acts.

She is not terrible, she is trying to reach out to you but has trouble finding the right words, so she acts that way. I know it may be troubling for you to deal with but please don't say that.

I'm sorry but you offended me and may have offended others. Be careful what words you use

[brittanyverjes1]

I have an autistic sibling, she shattered car windows, tore up our doors with holes, we can't have our ceramic pieces we had at school around, she busted her own head open, she shattered our glass table. She bit me hard enough to leave bruises, she tried to bite off fingers, she has kicked me hard in the eye and I got a huge bruise and flew across the room. She throws vases at out heads for no reason. Autistic kids are terrible but no excuse to kill them.

[mrswagger991001]

i bet thats what her parents said 2 her!!!

[emmyrachelx]

i have a sister with autism. this makes me so sick.

[themineaddict1]

so first she used, bathroom cleaner, and espected them to swallow??? Yeah, becuz that will totally work...physco path...

[mmmicheleoh]

more like "Psycho Akhter"