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 $100,000. She faces up to life in prison if convicted.
Munchausen by Proxy or just plain evil....
Who keeps feces for 3 years?
I’ve heard of potty training but this is ridiculous.
This is one of those cases IMO where we shouldn’t really bother the courts ... some old fashioned street justice is called for.
Wow. And people think “eat **** and die” is just an insult phrase. What the heck is this woman THINKING?
Oh well, hopefully she’ll spend the rest of her life behind bars, and her poor daughter will recover and end up someplace where she’s loved.
}:-)4
WHAT THE !!!
Munchausen by Proxy or just plain evil....
That’s a distinction without a difference.
That would be my guess.
Lock her in a cage, throw away the key.
The reporter is apparently clueless. The mom placed the feces in the “feeding tube”, yet this “feeding tube” has a “direct link” to the child’s bloodstream.
Most likely, it’s a central IV line that is used for TPN (feeding via IV).
I saw this about 15 years ago, when a mother was injecting water from the fish tank into her daughter’s central IV line. The child developed overwhelming sepsis and died.
I always serve fresh feces.
There should be NO bail and she should be sentenced to jail for life and fed feces for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Anything else that the jail would feed her is to good.
This whole world has turned upside down and I am beginning to think I should get off. :>{
There are a lot of good people who have tried to conceive and could not, who cherish the opportunity to love a baby.
Why is it that the evil people have little trouble conceiving and destroying the lives of the innocent?
These so-called journalists really need to start learning how to write better headlines.
Three year old feces? Isn’t it past it’s expiration date?
Of course this happened in The Peoples Republic of Austin. Its one of the few places in Texas where this kind of !@#$ can happen (no pun intended).
Those are the worst kind.
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