MO - Austin Anderson, 19, blind, autistic, murdered, Polk Co., 27 Aug 2016 *Arrest*

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Police: Mom admits to killing her blind, autistic teen
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Police say they found her Aug. 29 in a Polk County field lying about 20 feet away from a dead teenager wearing a diaper.
As Kimberly Lightwine drank water in a deputy sheriff's car and calmed down, she began to recount, police say, how she killed her 19-year-old son, who was blind and autistic, court documents said.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...its-killing-her-blind-autistic-teen/89943230/
 
Bless his heart, may he find the unconditional live he deserved in his life here in death. A junkie mom in over her head, a father who acknowledged her bad temper and this poor boy in the mix...it's heartbreaking!
 
OMG! You're right, absolutely heartbreaking! And looking and begging for help from his mother who pushed him away and let him die... I feel physically ill right now.
 
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article210842994.html

A southwest Missouri mother who was found lying next to her dead son in a field has pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and elder abuse in his death.

Prosecutors had said Austin Anderson, the 19-year-old son of Kimberly Lightwine, had "multiple handicaps," including blindness and autism, and couldn't survive without medication. After authorities found Anderson and Lightwine, both nearly naked on a summer day on a Morrisville, Missouri, farm, an autopsy determined Anderson was dehydrated and might have gone into shock because he was not given his medication.

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/09/kimberly-lightwine-pleads-guilty-son-austin-anderson-death/593990002/

Lightwine's attorney Jason Coatney said Lightwine — who once faced a possible life sentence — could spend as little as 120 days in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Coatney said Lightwine will enter a 120-day substance abuse treatment program through the prison system. If she successfully completes that program, she will be released on five years probation. If not, Lightwine could spend seven years in prison.
 
How did Kimberly 's leg get crushed? How was her jaw broken? Is LE looking for others that may have been involved? IMO, it sound like Austin and his mom were both abandoned in that field.
 
How did Kimberly 's leg get crushed? How was her jaw broken? Is LE looking for others that may have been involved? IMO, it sound like Austin and his mom were both abandoned in that field.

Right?! My thoughts exactly!


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How did Kimberly 's leg get crushed? How was her jaw broken? Is LE looking for others that may have been involved? IMO, it sound like Austin and his mom were both abandoned in that field.
Weird.

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How did Kimberly 's leg get crushed? How was her jaw broken? Is LE looking for others that may have been involved? IMO, it sound like Austin and his mom were both abandoned in that field.

Mother claims she had a depressive spell, methed up and took a psychotic holiday to 'save her kid' from her (go to jesus).

Considering other parents do this stone cold sober, I can see Kimberly inflicting her own injuries in a manic state worked up in a delusional fervor. It would NOT be easy.

What I don't quite grasp is that this is a prolonged event; a few days of nearly naked & crazy hollering and fighting with a teen is not going to be easy to ignore. I've lived on many rural farms and spent time at hundreds more- sound carries. Someone heard them at some point, unless this was abandoned farmstead property miles from the nearest neighbor.
 
Lightwine sentenced
Surrounded by a handful of supporters and wearing her “Kimberly and Austin Bubbers” T-shirt — with a picture of the mother and son covering the front and the words “Kimberly is Innocent” in large black, underlined letters on the back — Kimberly Lightwine, who will serve 120 days in an institutional treatment program for drug and alcohol abuse, was led away from a Polk County courtroom in handcuffs and leg restraints by deputies Friday morning.

Officially sentenced to seven years for each charge, to be served concurrently, Lightwine will be eligible for five years supervised probation following the successful completion of the program, Hendrickson said.

Judge sentences mother in death of disabled son in Polk County
Still, she and her supporters don't believe she should be the one convicted of two felonies. Her attorney has said Lightwine had a broken leg and jaw, and words written on her body with a sharp object when found in the field. He believes she too was a victim. But the prosecution has said two witnesses claim Lightwine was asking for directions in the area two days before she was found.

Lightwine speaks out
 
Feb 2019:

two-and-a-half years later... Kimberly Lightwine is out of prison and ready to share her side of the story... Authorities charged Lightwine based on this narrative: Lightwine got high on meth, drove out to the field and let her son die by depriving him of food, water and medication.

Lightwine has a different explanation. She said she had been using meth but quit about a month before this ordeal. She believes some of her drug associates became concerned that she would inform police about their activities, so they abducted her, beat her, drugged her, raped her and left her and her son in the field.

Lightwine had derogatory words, like "snitch," written on her body, including in places she could not have reached.

When Lightwine told the detective she killed her son, she was simply expressing a mother's guilt for not being able to save her child, Lightwine said.

Once charged with murder in autistic son's death, Ozarks woman says she's a victim
 

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