911 call: Mom in strangling case wanted ‘normal kids’
Jul. 21, 2010 04:29 PM – Associated Press
IRVING, Texas – A Dallas-area mother told a 911 operator she fatally strangled her two young children because they were autistic and she wanted “normal kids.”
Thirty-year-old Saiqa Akhter is jailed on a capital murder charge in the stranglings Monday of 2-year-old daughter Faryaal Akhter and 5-year-old son Zain Akhter at the family’s Irving apartment.
Police on Wednesday released a recording of the mother’s 911 call.
In it, she tells an operator that she first tried to get the children to drink bathroom cleaner before using a wire on their necks.
Asked why, Akhter says, “They’re both not normal, not normal. They’re autistic. Both are autistic.” Pressed further, she said, “I don’t want my children to be like that. … I want normal kids.”