© Shutterstock.com, Matthew BenoitSex with a 16 year old autistic, schizophrenic girl is "consensual".
According to The Arizona Republic, Glendale police were called to a home at around 5:45 p.m. on Saturday and found Jason Ash dead in the apartment.
Ash had a cord around his neck and several cuts on his body.
The mother told officers that she had left her 16-year-old daughter alone in the home with the girl's 43-year-old "friend."
"The mother later received a call from her daughter indicating that the daughter and Ash were involved in a consensual sex act involving strangulation and the male was deceased," Sgt. Jay O'Neill explained to reporters. "The mother returned to the apartment and called police. While the mother attempted to render life-saving measures to Ash, the 16 year-old fled the scene."
The girl, whose name had not been released because she was a juvenile, was located in a nearby apartment and taken into custody without resistance.
"During an interview, the 16-year-old suspect confessed to strangling Ash during a sex act and then later cutting him," O'Neill said.
The mother told KNXV that her daughter was having trouble understanding the situation because she suffered from schizophrenia and autism.
The girl was "really confused and does not understand what happened," the mother said.
It was not immediately clear if the Maricopa County Attorney's Office would try the girl as an adult.
Watch this video from KNXV, broadcast Jan. 21, 2014.
They should charge the mother with the murder...........the woman who 'allowed' her 16 year old autistic and SCHIZOPHRENIA daughter to have a 43 male as a FRIEND?????? and left them ALONE?????? I get this gut feeling....as I'm sure most of you are, that the man was trying to force himself on her and she fought back.......maybe this had been ongoing and she finally had enough. It is very rare for an autistic person to show violence towards another. She was definitely 'fighting back'. Anyhoo, a 43 year old man that would have sex with a 16 autistic girl deserves to be dead anyways.......I mean talk about sick and DESPERATE, beside it being 'staturory RAPE'. Leave the girl alone......she's obviously been through enough. The only tragedy of this story is that this poor girl has this woman as her mother.......the girl is the real victim here and should even be honoured for ridding society of another pedophile who was probably doing all kinds of incidious things the authorities didn't even know about.