Woman injects disabled son with her own blood so that he could get more attention from hospital staff
Elizabeth Malone pleaded guilty to child abuse but said her actions were prompted by her son's welfare and were not done with intention to harm the child
A mother has admitted to poisoning her disabled 5-year-old son after she was caught on surveillance cameras injecting him with her own blood as she wanted the hospital staff to pay more attention to him.
Twenty nine-year-old Elizabeth Malone pleaded guilty to child abuse on Wednesday after the cameras at a hospital in Virginia caught her using a syringe to inject blood into her sick son's nose and mouth in April last year.
According to reports, the severely ill child was admitted to the Inova Fairfax Hospital last year after Malone reported that he was bleeding from his mouth and his tracheostomy tube.