Not guilty pleas for NY mother accused of killing disabled daughter and son charged with rape
By APMonday, March 1, 2010
NY mother, son plead not guilty to fatal abuse
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A New York mother and son pleaded not guilty at their arraignments in the death of the woman’s 23-year-old mentally disabled daughter.
Eva Cummings appeared in Erie County Court Monday on a charge of second-degree murder. Cummings is accused of suffocating Laura Cummings in their North Collins home in January following years of abuse.
She and her son, 31-year-old Luke Wright, also face charges of predatory sexual assault, unlawful imprisonment as a hate crime and endangering a disabled person’s welfare. Wright is also charged with rape. Both are in jail without bail.
Investigators say Laura Cummings was tied to a chair, often with a hood over her head, sodomized with a broomstick, beaten and raped.
