BOULDER, Colo. -- It took three attempts over nearly 12 hours for Stephanie Rochester to smother the infant son she feared was autistic, according to an arrest affidavit unsealed Monday.
Rochester, 34, a mental-health counselor who worked with autistic kids at Children's Hospital, was charged Monday with first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in the death of her 6-month-old son, Rylan.
As she entered the Boulder District courtroom, wearing a suicide-prevention smock under a blue jail jumpsuit, she turned and looked to the gallery where two women, who said they are family members, sat. One of them put her hand to her heart and pursed her lips as she looked at Rochester.
Her husband, Lloyd Rochester IV, 29, was not in the courtroom.
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