When the 9-year-old child was admitted to the hospital, his own mother reportedly interfered with his IV tube. The mother is accused of poisoning her son’s IV drip with f-ces back when the child was receiving treatment at The Children’s Hospital. The boy whose identity was not disclosed was in a poor condition, and his temperature significantly shot up. Along with a high fever, the hospital staff noticed that he was experiencing delirium as well. One of the hospital nurses, Lindie, remembers one particular shift where the boy was very unwell, and was experiencing pain in his back, stomach, and his head. Lindie told the court that the boy asked for some medicine to take the pain away.
What the nurse also recalls from the time the boy was a patient at the hospital, that he displayed considerable behavioral problems. Not only was he very demanding of his mother, but he also had no qualms about swearing at the nurses. As the nurse overhead one of the conversations the boy had with his mother, she caught the child asking her why she was doing this to him. The nurse revealed that the boy told his mother something along the lines of: “you could have put something in my cannula when I was asleep.” The next day, the nurse heard the sick boy once again make similar statements, asking his mother why she was “doing this to me.” “She [the mother] said, ‘What?’” “Poisoning me,” the boy replied to his mother, said the nurse.
Lindie didn’t take the conversation lightly and wrote an email to child protection services about what she heard during her shifts at the hospital. The nurse also remembers the boy being in a state of extreme stress during this time. This was also corroborated by another nurse, Kristina, who shared the same shift as Brown. She, too, also remembers the young patient saying similar things to his mother. “What have you done to my cannula this time?” Kristina quoted the boy saying. She remembers the mother saying something to the tune of: “Why would you say that? That makes me upset when you say those things.”
As Kristina spoke in court as a witness, the mother’s lawyer, Pauline asked her whether it was possible she misheard the boy when he said, “don’t you dare put anything in my cannula?” “Possibly yes,” the nurse answered. After the boy lost his life, his blood sample tested positive for the bacteria E. coli, but the court heard that this infection could have been caused by a number of other possibilities. In a recent hearing, the mother pleaded not guilty to poisoning her son’s IV drip with f-ces, and court proceedings still continue years after the boy’s death, according to The Sun.
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