https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2019/03/14/virginia-mother-admits-injecting-child-with-her-own-blood/
A Virginia woman who admitted putting her blood in her son’s nose and mouth while he was in the hospital said she did it because she wanted her son to get attention from the hospital staff.
Elizabeth Malone, a mother of three from Fairfax County, pleaded guilty to child abuse Wednesday.
“She denies any intention to harm her child,” her attorney told the judge. “She loves her child like any mother.”
Malone had recently moved from Texas to Fairfax County when her 5-year-old son, who is unable to speak, was hospitalized at Inova Fairfax last spring.
Malone often disagreed with his treatment, but she liked the response she saw once when the boy was bleeding. That’s why she injected her son with her own blood to recreate those symptoms, her defense said.
But the prosecution said the injections left the child with infections and high fevers.
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