OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – A Holland woman pleaded guilty Wednesday, Oct. 22, to second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of her teen son.

Katie Austin Lee, 40, killed her son, Austin Dean Pikaart, in February at Bay Pointe Apartments.

As part of a plea agreement, Lee will be sentenced to 60 to 90 years in prison. Ottawa County Circuit Judge Jon Hulsing noted that she would be over 100 before she was eligible for release from prison.

“You understand that?” Hulsing asked.

Lee said yes.

Hulsing set sentencing for Jan. 19.

Lee said little during the hearing other than answering yes or no to the judge’s questions. She acknowledged giving up trial rights and agreed that she had killed her son who was incapacitated by medication.

She acknowledged that she cut her son’s arms while he was uncons

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