‘I didn’t want to upset her’: Mom who allowed 70-pound adult daughter with ‘severe autism’ to waste away from starvation because she was sensitive about her weight pleads guilty

Amy S. Laszkiewicz appears inset against an image of the residence where she allegedly allowed her daughter to starve to death

Inset: Amy S. Laszkiewicz (Waukesha County Jail). Background: The residence where Laszkiewicz allegedly allowed her daughter to starve to death in Pewaukee, Wisc. (Google Maps).

A Wisconsin mother who starved her adult daughter with “severe autism” to death pleaded guilty in court on Thursday afternoon.

In June 2023, Amy S. Laszkiewicz, 53, was charged with one count of recklessly subjecting an individual at risk to abuse under circumstances causing death over the Jan. 4, 2023, malnourishment death of Cora Laszkiewicz, 23, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime.

The defendant previously said the starvation regime was enacted, in part, because she did not want to upset her since-deceased daughter with traditionally sensitive issues regarding her weight, according to the Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office.

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