There is precedent for sitting/smothering your 9 yr old and found innocent

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'It was the only verdict they could have reached,' her attorney, Cyril Ash, said. 'She wasn't doing anything but following instructions from a family therapist.'

Mrs. Mentry testified a family counselor -- Jorge Sousa -- told her to drag the boy out of bed early in the morning, lay him down on the floor and 'sit on him just like he's a chair.'

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Sousa, 29, denied advising Mrs. Mentry to sit on the boy. Instead, he testified, he told the woman to keep her weight on her knees and straddle her son.

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