Inclusion Daily Express -- Board Suspends Dr. McCarron's License Indefinitely

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Board Suspends Dr. McCarron's License Indefinitely
By Dave Reynolds, Inclusion Daily Express
January 9, 2007

PEKIN, ILLINOIS--A state panel has suspended for an indefinite period of time the license of pathologist Dr. Karen McCarron who is awaiting trial on charges that she suffocated her three-year-old daughter, Katie.

Last week, the Pekin Times reported that the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, a disciplinary board that oversees professional licensing, suspended indefinitely McCarron's license to practice medicine after finding that she violated professional guidelines in connection with the alleged murder of her daughter, who had autism.

McCarron's license was suspended on a temporary basis last June after the panel determined that she presented an immediate danger to the public's safety.

Police charged McCarron, 37, with murder after she admitted that on May 13, 2006 she took Katie to the home of the girl's grandmother, where she held a plastic trash bag over the girl's head until she stopped breathing.

A grand jury later indicted her on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of obstructing justice, and one count of concealing a homicidal death because she allegedly took her daughter's dead body from the scene of the crime to her own house, and placed it in bed to make it look as if the girl was napping. McCarron also confessed to going back to retrieve the plastic bag and discarding it in a gas station garbage can.

Days later, McCarron said she was overwhelmed by her daughter's disability and wanted to "end her pain and her daughter's pain" of autism. After her daughter was dead, McCarron said she tried committing suicide by overdosing on Tylenol.

McCarron has pleaded not guilty to the crimes. She could face up to 100 years in prison if convicted of the murder charges. The additional charges could add more prison time.

A hearing in her criminal case is scheduled for January 18, but no trial date has been scheduled.

Expanded coverage:
"Karen McCarron: Doctor Says She Killed Daughter To 'End Their Pain'" (Inclusion Daily Express Archives)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/crime/il/mccarron.htm

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