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theweaselkingA mother has been jailed for five years for killing her nine-year-old son by putting salt in his hospital drip.
David Stocker died in Great Ormond Street Hospital in August 2001 from an overdose of 13 teaspoons of salt which his mother put into his drip feed.
On Friday at the Old Bailey, Petrina Stocker, 42, was also disqualified from working with children
On Thursday, the court heard David was ill for months but doctors were unable to make him better because his mother was misleading them.
Nicholas Hilliard, prosecuting, said the 13 teaspoons of salt poured into a milk drip feed was the last in a series of acts by Stocker.
David, who had been a healthy karate champion, was in and out of hospital for five months and had turned into little more than skin and bones.
Mr Hilliard said David had been treated since February 2001 in Great Ormond Street Hospital and in Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex, with his mother keeping a bedside vigil.
But doctors could not find what was wrong with him because of the various symptoms he displayed, such as loss of appetite and lethargy.
He said Stocker had put blood into urine samples and manufactured vomit samples, in addition to interfering with his intravenous drip.
Mr Hilliard said: "The episode of salt poisoning was the last in a series of acts done in an attempt to fabricate aspects of David's illness and to produce manufactured or misleading symptoms."
David Stocker died in Great Ormond Street Hospital in August 2001 from an overdose of 13 teaspoons of salt which his mother put into his drip feed.
On Friday at the Old Bailey, Petrina Stocker, 42, was also disqualified from working with children
On Thursday, the court heard David was ill for months but doctors were unable to make him better because his mother was misleading them.
Nicholas Hilliard, prosecuting, said the 13 teaspoons of salt poured into a milk drip feed was the last in a series of acts by Stocker.
David, who had been a healthy karate champion, was in and out of hospital for five months and had turned into little more than skin and bones.
Mr Hilliard said David had been treated since February 2001 in Great Ormond Street Hospital and in Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex, with his mother keeping a bedside vigil.
But doctors could not find what was wrong with him because of the various symptoms he displayed, such as loss of appetite and lethargy.
He said Stocker had put blood into urine samples and manufactured vomit samples, in addition to interfering with his intravenous drip.
Mr Hilliard said: "The episode of salt poisoning was the last in a series of acts done in an attempt to fabricate aspects of David's illness and to produce manufactured or misleading symptoms."
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Date: 2005-02-25 08:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-26 12:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-26 02:07 am (UTC)This story actually reminds me a lot of a part from the movie Sixth Sence, where a child's mother had been slowly poisoning her with some sort of soap or something in her food - some say for attention, not because she was mentally ill.
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Date: 2005-02-26 04:43 am (UTC)Sixth Sense has a classic example of this, which is a rare but not unheard-of situation.
Lara mentions the proper title above. Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchausen_syndrome_by_proxy
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Date: 2005-02-26 03:18 pm (UTC)Mom kills son
Date: 2005-02-26 02:52 pm (UTC)