Her wheelchair-using son begged her for months to kill him before she plunged a foot-long knife into his stomach last week, a Queens mercy-killer mom told cops.
Migdalia Veras, 57, told detectives her son Rene, 39, didn't want to be left alone to battle cerebral palsy if she died first.
"He asked me to kill him," she said in a statement released by Queens prosecutors following a hospital arraignment that was piped into Queens Supreme Court via video feed Monday.
Veras made the grisly confession at New York Hospital Queens, where she was taken Wednesday after a failed suicide try. She's being held without bail on a second-degree murder charge and faces 25 years to life.
Two months ago, Veras says, the two were sitting on his bed in their Flushing home when he asked her to kill him. "Rene handed me the knife and repeated, 'Do it," she said.
"I told him I did not want to do it. He then took the knife and stabbed himself...He then kept begging me not to leave him alone and kept asking me to kill him. I then took the knife that was on top of the bed. I picked up the knife and stabbed him in the chest," she said.
"I then tried to go with my son by cutting my wrists but I could not do it because my hands were shaking," she said
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