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Mother charged with feeding 3-year-old feces
Austin American Statesman ^ | 6.3.09 | Tony Plohetski

Posted on 06/03/2009 12:04:43 PM PDT by trumandogz

Austin police have charged a woman with injury to a child after they said she repeatedly fed her 3-year-old daughter human waste, causing her potentially life-threatening infections.

An arrest affidavit said that a surveillance video at Dell Children’s Medical Center captured Emily Beth McDonald, 23, on Sunday placing feces in her daughter’s feeding tube. The child had been hospitalized so doctors could treat “serious infections” caused by organisms consistent with those found in feces.

The affidavit said that hospital staff decided, based on that information, to place a camera in the child’s room and that it recorded McDonald taking “fecal matter from a spoiled diaper” and placing it on the cap of a tube that has a direct link to the child’s bloodstream.

According to the affidavit, police interviewed McDonald, who confessed to wiping the end of the tube with feces.

“McDonald advised that she knew her actions would cause her daughter to stay sick,” the affidavit said. “McDonald also explained that rubbing feces on her daughter’s line could cause her to become septic and that it could kill her.”

Bail for McDonald has been set at $100,000. She faces up to life in prison if convicted.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: disgusting; munchausen; munchausenbyproxy; sick
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1 posted on 06/03/2009 12:04:43 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz

Munchausen by Proxy or just plain evil....


2 posted on 06/03/2009 12:05:55 PM PDT by Born Conservative (Bohicaville: http://bohicaville.wordpress.com/)
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To: Revolting cat!

Who keeps feces for 3 years?


3 posted on 06/03/2009 12:06:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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To: trumandogz

I’ve heard of potty training but this is ridiculous.


4 posted on 06/03/2009 12:06:24 PM PDT by Borges
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To: trumandogz

This is one of those cases IMO where we shouldn’t really bother the courts ... some old fashioned street justice is called for.


5 posted on 06/03/2009 12:06:28 PM PDT by mgc1122
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To: trumandogz

Wow. And people think “eat **** and die” is just an insult phrase. What the heck is this woman THINKING?

Oh well, hopefully she’ll spend the rest of her life behind bars, and her poor daughter will recover and end up someplace where she’s loved.

}:-)4


6 posted on 06/03/2009 12:06:30 PM PDT by Moose4 (Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
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To: trumandogz

WHAT THE !!!


7 posted on 06/03/2009 12:06:36 PM PDT by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Born Conservative

Munchausen by Proxy or just plain evil....

That’s a distinction without a difference.


8 posted on 06/03/2009 12:07:33 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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Munchausen by Proxy

That would be my guess.

Lock her in a cage, throw away the key.

9 posted on 06/03/2009 12:08:17 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Born Conservative

The reporter is apparently clueless. The mom placed the feces in the “feeding tube”, yet this “feeding tube” has a “direct link” to the child’s bloodstream.

Most likely, it’s a central IV line that is used for TPN (feeding via IV).

I saw this about 15 years ago, when a mother was injecting water from the fish tank into her daughter’s central IV line. The child developed overwhelming sepsis and died.


10 posted on 06/03/2009 12:09:06 PM PDT by Born Conservative (Bohicaville: http://bohicaville.wordpress.com/)
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To: a fool in paradise

I always serve fresh feces.


11 posted on 06/03/2009 12:09:11 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Just being fecesious.)
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To: trumandogz
Bail for McDonald has been set at $100,000. She faces up to life in prison if convicted.

There should be NO bail and she should be sentenced to jail for life and fed feces for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Anything else that the jail would feed her is to good.

12 posted on 06/03/2009 12:09:20 PM PDT by Mind Freed ("Every man has the right to be a fool 5 minutes a day. Wisdom is not exceeding the limit.")
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To: trumandogz

This whole world has turned upside down and I am beginning to think I should get off. :>{


13 posted on 06/03/2009 12:10:07 PM PDT by MamaB (Heb.13:2)
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To: trumandogz

There are a lot of good people who have tried to conceive and could not, who cherish the opportunity to love a baby.

Why is it that the evil people have little trouble conceiving and destroying the lives of the innocent?


14 posted on 06/03/2009 12:10:32 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
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To: a fool in paradise

15 posted on 06/03/2009 12:10:46 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Just being fecesious.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

These so-called journalists really need to start learning how to write better headlines.


16 posted on 06/03/2009 12:10:51 PM PDT by dfwgator (USM is Gator Bait! (Congrats to U-Dub!))
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To: trumandogz

Three year old feces? Isn’t it past it’s expiration date?


17 posted on 06/03/2009 12:11:41 PM PDT by henkster (The GOP is housebroken window-dressing displayed to portray the fiction of a Republic.)
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To: trumandogz

Of course this happened in The Peoples Republic of Austin. Its one of the few places in Texas where this kind of !@#$ can happen (no pun intended).


18 posted on 06/03/2009 12:11:45 PM PDT by Jeb21 (www.jewsagainstobama.com)
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To: trumandogz
3-year-old feces

Those are the worst kind.

19 posted on 06/03/2009 12:12:26 PM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: Born Conservative
Waffle House uniform?


20 posted on 06/03/2009 12:12:27 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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