Guilty plea in fillicide of blind autistic

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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, the Springfield News-Leader reported.