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A British mother is on trial for the alleged murder of her 5-year-old son last December

Prosecutors claim Claire Button, who denied the murder charge, suffocated her son and then tried to kill herself via an overdose

A prosecutor alleged in court Monday, Oct. 6, that "the challenges of caring for an autistic child had caused the defendant to become depressed," so Button "chose to murder her child"

A British court heard from prosecutors this week that the mother of a non-verbal boy with autism allegedly smothered her son to death and then tried to kill herself after they say “the challenges of caring for an autistic child" had become too overbearing.

Claire Button, 35, is on trial this week in the Basildon Crown Court where she faces a murder charge in connection with the

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