Indian American doc indicted for killing mother

The doctor wanted to protect her siblings from their abusive mother.

The Indian American doctor Malar Balasubramanian, who reportedly admitted to have killed her mother, was indicted and could face upto 20 years in prison if convicted.

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Balasubramanian, 28, was indicted on a charge of aggravated murder, meaning she is accused of purposely killing her mother and doing so with "calculation and design."

If convicted, she might face 20 years prison sentence, said Anne Flanagan, an assistant Hamilton County prosecutor, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported on Sunday.

Balasubramanian, a pediatrician, in an email to her sister and brother, said that she'd decided to kill herself, but that she didn't want to leave them alone with their mother, Saroja, 53.

"I'm sorry for what I did to Amma," she wrote, according to a search warrant police filed Friday. "I am. But I'm glad she's not here to hurt us anymore."

She said, she wanted to protect her younger siblings from their abusive mother, the report said.

"There's no proof" of the abuse allegation, Flanagan said. "Saroja was a working woman whose co-workers cared enough to come check on her."

Employees at the Wornick Co., a military food rations manufacturer in Blue Ash, stopped by the family's Woodlands Way house on last Tuesday because the victim hadn't been to work in two days.

Balasubramanian, accused of strangling her mother, told police that she first tried to kill her with a milkshake.