Background
She practiced medicine in India for a time before returning to her home in the Blue Ash suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio two or three weeks prior to her mother"s homicide.
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Malar Balasubramanian
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Malar Balasubramanian graduated from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland in 2001 and completed a pediatric residency program at Children"s Hospital in Pittsburgh in June, 2004.
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She was planning to move to Saint Louis to begin a fellowship in pediatric cardiology. Parts of this email read, "Once I realized that I won"t succeed the way I wanted to in life and decided to end it, I realized that I couldn"t leave you two alone with Amma" ("Amma" means "mother") and "I"m sorry for what I did to Amma, I am, but I"m glad she"s not here to hurt us anymore."
She also told police she left a six-page letter in the car that explained why she killed her mother. She was indicted Friday, July 29, 2005 on one count of aggravated murder.
Malar Balasubramanian was arraigned on charges of aggravated murder before Hamilton County, Ohio Judge Dennis Helmick on August 8, 2005.
She did not enter a plea, so Judge Helmick entered a "Not Guilty" plea for her. She was jailed without bond.
On Friday, September 16, 2005, Malar Balasubramanian changed her plea to "not guilty by reason of insanity". Lawyers representing Doctor Balasubramanian said the new plea was supported by evidence that suggested the then 28-year-old doctor was distraught, injured and under the influence of drugs.
On Monday, January 30, 2006, Doctor Malar Balasubramanian changed her plea to guilty of a reduced charge of "involuntary manslaughter." She was sentenced to 10 years in jail by Judge Dennis Helmick.
She was released on December 18, 2012 on judicial release.
