Desperate mother and godmother 'killed severely autistic boy, 14, by stabbing him multiple times in the chest' when they became overwhelmed caring for him 24/7 after demanding he be removed from the hospital and in put in their care

A mother stabbed her severely autistic son several times in the chest then nearly severed his hand slashing his wrist after she and the 14-year-old's godmother became overwhelmed caring for the boy day and night after taking him out of the hospital in March, police say. Dorothy Spourdalakis had pleaded for financial help removing her son Alex from Loyal University Medical Center in Chicago, where she claimed he was neglected and abused. Disgraced British autism researcher Andrew Wakefield personally recorded a YouTube request for donations in March to find Alex a home outside the hospital and said that he would be taken away from his mother if supporters didn't act. After Wakefield's appeal and several posts by the autism activist site Age of Autism, an anonymous donor gave Spourdalakis funds that allowed her to leave the hospital with Alex. She wrote in a March blog post she would make sure Alex received 'appropriate medical attention.' Less than three months later, police say, Spourdalakis and his godmother and caretaker Jolanta Agatha Skrodzka could no longer handle round-the-clock care for Alex because they believed the 200-pound teen's 'emotional condition had worsened' since he was removed from the hospital.

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