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oceanblueeyes
06-03-2009, 03:28 PM
Mom Accused Of Feeding Feces To Child
Emily McDonald Charged With Injury To A Child
http://www.click2houston.com/news/19645914/detail.html
POSTED: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Emily McDonald
AUSTIN, Texas -- An Austin woman was charged with injury to a child after she was accused of putting feces into her 3-year-old daughter's feeding tube at a hospital.
Okay now this one sounds like that syndrome I've read about on here...Munchausen.
It might not be but at first blush that's what came to my mind.
And that's just nasty BTW.
Kimster
06-03-2009, 03:48 PM
Holy cow! These headlines are really starting to make me SICK! What kind of a world are we living in?
nursebeeme
06-03-2009, 04:02 PM
we should celebrate! This crazy mom was caught before the child was dead! What a whacko!
believe09
06-03-2009, 04:09 PM
Sure sounds like Munchausen's by proxy. You can be assured that this will be the defense...
Vegas Bride
06-03-2009, 04:25 PM
So glad the hospital set up the camera. That poor little girl! She probably never had anything at all wrong with her before her mother began doing things, and now she had a feeding tube! I hope she never has to lay eyes on her again.
VB
mysterygirl
06-03-2009, 04:39 PM
Thank god she was caught, that little girl would have died after becoming septic, her little organs could have only compensated so much..........god I'm so disgusted with these cases, I just want to punch these women in the face.
stilettos
06-03-2009, 04:42 PM
WTH is this world coming to that a Mother (I use that term in a loose manner as this woman is an animal) would do such a thing to her child?? :furious:
Boyz_Mum
06-03-2009, 05:49 PM
Okay now this one sounds like that syndrome I've read about on here...Munchausen.
It might not be but at first blush that's what came to my mind.
And that's just nasty BTW.
That's what it sounds like to me too.
Mysterygirl, I feel the same way you do. :furious:
VespaElf
06-03-2009, 07:03 PM
This isnt the first time Ive read a news story detailing a Mother introducing feces into a feeding tube........that other case was Munchhausen by proxy & this one is too I'll bet(& likely why the child was hospitalized in the first place!).
Thats probably why a camera was placed,so staff could confirm suspicions (I bet this poor baby has a med.record bigger than a phone book).
The mother is clearly mentally ill!
crystalgenie
06-03-2009, 07:05 PM
:furious: I really wish people would stop calling these feral females Mom, Mommy, or Mother. I always say "Cats and Dogs give birth to puppies and kittens all the time... Some times feral female cats eat their young!!!" The fact that these things ( I can't call them humans) give birth doesn't make them anything more than an egg donor and host!!! Sorry I just needed to vent!!! My apologies.
VespaElf
06-03-2009, 07:24 PM
:furious: I really wish people would stop calling these feral females Mom, Mommy, or Mother. I always say "Cats and Dogs give birth to puppies and kittens all the time... Some times feral female cats eat their young!!!" The fact that these things ( I can't call them humans) give birth doesn't make them anything more than an egg donor and host!!! Sorry I just needed to vent!!! My apologies.
In typical abuse cases Id agree with you but in this case,like in the Andrea Yates case,I believe this woman isnt depraved or evil (like a "typical"abuser)but I believe she is SERIOUSLY mentally ill & needs SERIOUS help (& while she gets that help she is not to have custody of her daughter).
Thankfully she was caught & her daughter IS alive & should recover & this woman can get the long overdue treatment & intervention she needs & the family can heal.......
Melanie
06-03-2009, 08:23 PM
we should celebrate! This crazy mom was caught before the child was dead! What a whacko!
EXACTLY! How can a mother do that. Definitely MbProxy.
ICK!
Mel
Melanie
06-03-2009, 08:27 PM
And she just looks evil doesn't she! To top it off, she did this little stunt 5X during the hospital stay. Thank God for suspicious doctors.
kaych
06-03-2009, 08:38 PM
I actually know this woman.
She has a livejournal names irangel. its been cleared.
She has a blog at themacdonaldfive.blogspot.com
its been password protected but the rss is here:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/themcdonaldfive/
kaych
06-03-2009, 09:20 PM
I shoudl also add this.
All 3 of her kids were micro preemies. When she had the last one, the one in question, there was a lot of livejournal drama because a comment was made about having preemies got her lots of attention.
We had raffles and fund raisers to help her with cash and the money was being spent in questionable ways.
I will see if I can find some of these posts but they're about 3 years old so it may take some time.
kaelee2
06-03-2009, 10:08 PM
Here is a link to a Q&A written by Emily McDonald in August 2007 about having preemies.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/archive/mcdonald_preemie.html
From the pictures in the blog link from above, this child is adorable and so precious. I wonder how many of her medical problems were caused by her mother? If her oldest daughter is in kindergarten, she should be 5-6 years old, which means her mother had her when she was 16-17 years old. I am anxious to hear a response from the husband.
Kaelee
impatientredhead
06-03-2009, 10:09 PM
:furious: I really wish people would stop calling these feral females Mom, Mommy, or Mother. I always say "Cats and Dogs give birth to puppies and kittens all the time... Some times feral female cats eat their young!!!" The fact that these things ( I can't call them humans) give birth doesn't make them anything more than an egg donor and host!!! Sorry I just needed to vent!!! My apologies.
And sometimes those feral cats will fight to the death to protect their kittens. There was the a cat in New York that made six trips into a burning building to get her kittens out, suffered severe burns, lost her eyelids. These women are not mothers and don't deserve to be compared to an alley cat. Though they should be trapped and spayed like one.
oceanblueeyes
06-03-2009, 10:14 PM
And sometimes those feral cats will fight to the death to protect their kittens. There was the a cat in New York that made six trips into a burning building to get her kittens out, suffered severe burns, lost her eyelids. These women are not mothers and don't deserve to be compared to an alley cat. Though they should be trapped and spayed like one.
All the feral mother cats that I have come into contact with were/are excellent mothers.
imo
impatientredhead
06-03-2009, 10:17 PM
In typical abuse cases Id agree with you but in this case,like in the Andrea Yates case,I believe this woman isnt depraved or evil (like a "typical"abuser)but I believe she is SERIOUSLY mentally ill & needs SERIOUS help (& while she gets that help she is not to have custody of her daughter).
Thankfully she was caught & her daughter IS alive & should recover & this woman can get the long overdue treatment & intervention she needs & the family can heal.......
She plotted, planned, researched medical protocols and systematically covered her tracks. Andrea Yates was seriously mentally ill and out of control and intervention should have happened. This case may have a label to attach to it but I don't see it as anymore or less abusive than the women who starve their kids or systematically abuse them while dodging social services. In fact this woman wasn't even angry and out of control, she does it to get attention. Andrea thought she was saving her children didn't she? She did not see some benefit it in for her that they could pay the price for. That motive is right up there with the usual suspects, money, jealousy, adultery, etc..... MOO
PS- I hope she gets excellent treatment and it is wildly successful because she will be out and have access to her kids, have new ones, or find some guy and have stepkids.
impatientredhead
06-03-2009, 10:20 PM
All the feral mother cats that I have come into contact with were/are excellent mothers.
imo
Me too. The only animals I have seen not be good mothers are ones that were inseminated. The lack of normal mating behaviour seems to bypass a switch that turns on that part of the brain. It is much like they don't know they are pregnant and they don't go through the process of getting ready to be a mom. They seem confused by the babies, but even then they just avoid them, not torture them for amusement.
Law_girl41
06-03-2009, 10:29 PM
OH EM GEE! Thanks for posting the blogsspot. But dang! Now that I see this precious little face.......I wanna smack the mother senseless!!! How in the world can anyone do this to any child. Oh how this aches my heart......senseless suffering of a child.....Munchausen my eye! She does this for the internet attention! Even if it is MBP.....she needs to be in the pokie for a little bit. Holy COw that pisses me off. Here I am fussing over my daughter who has an earache..........us good mommies want our babies to get better, not worse! GARRRRRRR!
Tristan
06-03-2009, 11:09 PM
My first reaction was "Munchausen Syndrome"
This woman needs serious mental intervention.
nursebeeme
06-03-2009, 11:11 PM
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/themcdonaldfive/199861.html
When I look at this picture... of this little girl made ill by her MOTHER I want to just SCREAM... MBP is one scary mental illness...
LaLaw2000
06-03-2009, 11:47 PM
MG! This woman should be charged with attempted murder. I know it is MBP, but what if this 3 year old baby had died? It would have been murder.
I am sick of sociopathic scumbags getting off with a mental defense. And I mean sick to death of it. This **&^%%* knew what she was doing. Intervention? How about 20 years in prison with offenders who love their children?
I know there are those that will disagree with me, but I thought Andrea Yates should have done LWOP. She could have her meds in prison.
I wish I was wealthy and lived on a huge farm. I would take these children that no one wants!
Sassygerl
06-04-2009, 12:12 AM
ack...I'm an Austinite and haven't heard of this.....SICK!!! That poor baby....I will never understand!
akashana
06-04-2009, 02:28 AM
The thing about Andrea Yates is that if she is insane she can't be culpable. Ergo, no punishment via imprisonment. And prisons aren't intended to meet those types of treatment needs. It's not fair to the staff to expect them to manage legal and clinical insanity together with the prison population. IMHO Andra is in the best place for all concerned, and I'm grateful justice won out.
But this new POS mom is something else! At some point in her pregnancies she discovered this wasn't a bad way to get attention and apparently, donations. So she perpetuated the problem. According to her blog, it was recently about a year since the baby had begun suffering GI distress. Imagine how that year of unnecessary illness stunted her developmentally. And being cooped up in a hospital for so long at so young. So much stolen from her by the one who should protect her from everything. The baby-killing and injuring mamas make my blood boil!
In the past two years I have developed my own personal standard about criminals who are said to have some sort of diagnosed or diagnosable mental illness. Again this is my own standard.
If mental illness is to be named as a cause of the crime (We've seen it all too, NPD, APD, BPD, etc.) then in my mind I ask myself...did those criminals know the difference between right and wrong when they commited the crime?
This one doesn't pass because she went to such lengths and hid her crime for her own personal gain.
She gets no sympathy from me. Most don't.
Donjeta
06-04-2009, 08:59 AM
Ick. So who has custody of the children now? Did she make the others ill?
Boyz_Mum
06-04-2009, 11:01 AM
Is there treatment for Munchausen's? What is wrong in the brain psychologically or physically that would "make" a person commit an act like this? Do the authorities actually give a person a second chance at parenting after a bout with Munchausen's? (Is anyone aware of any other cases similar where the MBP got custody after "successful treatment"?)
It's a puzzling mental disorder, but I honestly wouldn't let this woman near anyone or anything, treated or not. (JMO)
PeteyGirl
06-04-2009, 12:37 PM
She didn't FEED fecal material to her baby . . . she put fecal material in her central line IV!!!http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/topnews/story/Austin-police-Woman-put-feces-in-childs-IV/jH5e-XAjeEea5jDm-Td7LA.cspx
OMG!! Right into her bloodstream!!
kaych
06-04-2009, 12:42 PM
Ick. So who has custody of the children now? Did she make the others ill?
Her husband has the kids. Friends tell me he was starting to suspect something, she'd been under a lot of stress with money and their relationship had been a bit strained.
valeenmur
06-04-2009, 12:49 PM
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/themcdonaldfive/199861.html
When I look at this picture... of this little girl made ill by her MOTHER I want to just SCREAM... MBP is one scary mental illness...
OMG,this poor darling child. What has she endured for the last 3 years ??
Where is the dad and are the other kids healthy?
I hope they have a loving grandma willing to step in and give them the love and care they deserve.
TxBecca
06-04-2009, 01:02 PM
I knew Emily a couple years ago when her oldest daughter was a baby/toddler. She was a young mom, but she was such a great mom. We were friends on another blogging community. I would never in a million years think she would do something like this. I wouldn't believe it today if the hospital didn't have proof and she admitted to it.
I am sickened that she would do this. I guess you really don't know anyone afterall. :(
Tranaice
06-04-2009, 01:11 PM
What a beautiful little girl! This just makes me physically ill to think about what that little angel has suffered in her short 3 years. This woman (can't call her a mother) needs to have fecal matter put in an iv into her!!!!
kaych
06-04-2009, 01:25 PM
Just some more posts from people who knew her.
http://community.livejournal.com/parent_drama/173275.html
http://community.livejournal.com/sf_drama/2242276.html
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/crime/Mom_feeds_child_feces
http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/txcn/austin/stories/060309kvue_feeding_tube_injury-cb.44b4e203.html - This one is where she admits she did it for attention.
kaych
06-04-2009, 01:39 PM
One more. YOu might need an account to read this, but I will include it.
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the hospital jig *screams*
Midnight early Monday morning we came to the ER because my brilliant 3yr old turned her feeding pump rate up and started dumping severely. Since she has a kidney disorder that affects her electrolytes and a history of aspiration we felt it was best to make sure nothing was off. They admitted us for observation. When we came she was mildly dehydrated but they felt like once she started her normal continuous feeds her fluid status would improve so there was no need to do IV replacement. Monday during the day it became apparent that she wasn't peeing. Her feeds seemed to be going okay at 70ml/hr but her belly was very bloated and there was absolutely no pee. They did a bladder scan and found something like 130mls in her bladder which they said was less than they'd expect. They repeated labs and she was slightly more dehydrated even with her feeds. Not long after the labs she started dumping again rather severely (339 output of diarrhea in 4.5hrs) and they shifted gears to put her on IV replacement at 4pm running at 44ml/hr.
Last night's labs looked more concerning, her potassium had plummetted (this is due to her kidney disorder) she was alkalotic (also from her kidney disorder) but there were no signs of dehydration from fluid loss (sodium and chloride were totally normal, kidney function looked good). At 4am when there was still no pee and it had been 31hrs sans pee, they did another bladder scan and she only had 25ml in her bladder. This morning's labs looked totally normal after they treated her kidney disorder by giving her meds and changing her IV solution. But yet, still no pee. They did a bladder scan a short while ago and found 160mls in her bladder so there is a little pee, nothing like their should be but it's there. *screams*
Where the heck did the 120ml they found in her bladder yesterday go?!?! Why wont she just pee?!?! Why do they keep telling me that she's dehydrated due to the diarrhea when her labs give absolutely no indication of that and she's not had diarrhea for 16hrs?!?! The junior resident just came in to say that they'll give her until 1pm to pee out what's in her bladder and if she hasn't by then they'll draw another BMP. I don't know when I should get concerned and they're being unbelievably vague. Not to mention that once we do get her peeing we have to tackle the GI problems. I have no clue what kind of damage she may have done to her stomach but her gut just seems to have shut down.
Hopefully today we'll get more answers but at least she's feeling much better since they stopped her g-tube feeds. Her belly isn't nearly as bloated and her oxygen needs have come down as a result. So much for our short 24hr observation... The word "discharge" hasn't even been uttered.
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Donjeta
06-04-2009, 02:28 PM
Did she put the feces on the feeding tube or the IV catheter? Or both? The news articles conflict on this.
nursebeeme
06-04-2009, 02:54 PM
She had an IJ line (had a broviac or implantable port) taken out before the IJ was placed (internal jugular)... this is per the mother's blog that was previously linked. From the article I read, she put the feces in the caps of the IJ... so whenever TPN was hooked up (feeding line) it would push that feces into her blood stream.
And the mother wonders why this child has no renal function!!!! Ecoli can shut the kidneys down!!! If you read the blogs by this mother some of the stated recurrent medical conditions and infections could ALL EASILY have been induced by feces... especially if the child had been receiving any home IV treatments via the broviac!
Disgusting! Sad! An outrage!
IWannaKnow
06-04-2009, 03:20 PM
Does anyone else think she might have been trying to kill this child, not just make her sick??? And where the heck did she learn soooooo much medical terminology? She can't be a complete dummy, what she writes makes sense......I can't understand this AT ALL. I guess all the compassion and empathy you would receive for being such a "good mother" and what a terrible time you are having is the pay off ???????
:eek: :confused::furious::waitasec:
PeteyGirl
06-04-2009, 03:29 PM
The feces were put on the "access" to a device that is implanted in her internal jugular vein, so stuff put in this port goes to the right side of her heart, through the lungs, into the left side of the heart, and out to her body via blood circulation.
The first few articles did mis-state that the feces were put in a feeding line. They were actually put into an intravenous line :(
TxBecca
06-04-2009, 03:33 PM
Does anyone else think she might have been trying to kill this child, not just make her sick??? And where the heck did she learn soooooo much medical terminology? She can't be a complete dummy, what she writes makes sense......I can't understand this AT ALL. I guess all the compassion and empathy you would receive for being such a "good mother" and what a terrible time you are having is the pay off ???????
:eek: :confused::furious::waitasec:
She was taking some kind of nursing classes
PeteyGirl
06-04-2009, 03:34 PM
Does anyone else think she might have been trying to kill this child, not just make her sick??? And where the heck did she learn soooooo much medical terminology? She can't be a complete dummy, what she writes makes sense......I can't understand this AT ALL. I guess all the compassion and empathy you would receive for being such a "good mother" and what a terrible time you are having is the pay off ???????
:eek: :confused::furious::waitasec:
I'm no expert on MBP but if she killed the child, she would have lost her "source" of attention and gratification. So no, she wasn't trying to kill the child. She was gratifying herself with the attention she received as "that poor mother with such a sick child, how does she do it? She must be REAL SPECIAL."
It's mind blowing what a human being will do to feel special.
Her knowledge of medical terminology isn't uncommon when you have such a sick kid. With this *itch, that she has such careful, complete knowledge is such a dark thing . . . in fact, I have heard in casual conversation at hospitals (I am an RN) that such intensely detailed medical knowledge, coupled with intense, controlling involvement by a family member, is a serious red flag.
These medical personell KNEW she was making her daughter sick long before they caught her. They needed to get their ducks in a row before getting the surveillance so her lawyers couldn't come back on them and throw the whole thing out of court.
SleuthyMama
06-04-2009, 03:50 PM
Yeah, in past cases of mom's w/ MBP weren't some of them nurses and/or at least women with a pretty decent knowledge of medicine? I seem to remember that from some cases I've read about.
I really hope they can charge her with attempted murder. It's a long shot but still...
Dakota
http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/Kat4missing/IMG_4272.jpg
She breaks my heart, look at her :(
nursebeeme
06-04-2009, 04:35 PM
I really hope they can charge her with attempted murder. It's a long shot but still...
Dakota
http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/Kat4missing/IMG_4272.jpg
She breaks my heart, look at her :(
The tube coming out of the right side of her neck is the IJ (internal jugular) central iv line (feeding line).
As a nurse this case makes me seeeeeeeeeeething mad....
nursebeeme
06-04-2009, 04:36 PM
She was taking some kind of nursing classes
well (thank GOD), that most likely will not come to fruition!
nursebeeme
06-04-2009, 04:37 PM
I could just see this woman, if she HAD become a nurse, being the kind who would kill her patients.
That was my first thought too nurse. Thank goodness she won't get her hands on any more children.
kaych
06-04-2009, 04:47 PM
Does anyone else think she might have been trying to kill this child, not just make her sick??? And where the heck did she learn soooooo much medical terminology? She can't be a complete dummy, what she writes makes sense......I can't understand this AT ALL. I guess all the compassion and empathy you would receive for being such a "good mother" and what a terrible time you are having is the pay off ???????
:eek: :confused::furious::waitasec:
Moms of preemies learn it, fast.
Plus she was in nursing school.
BuzzieCat
06-04-2009, 06:20 PM
I notice how her sig line lists her children and includes "oxygen dependent" on Dakota. That's like her saying, "Hey, look, one of my kids is oxygen dependent! Look at me! Look what I go through!" Blech.
PeteyGirl
06-04-2009, 06:39 PM
Moms of preemies learn it, fast.
Plus she was in nursing school.
I'll bet my teeth the nurses she told about her own nursing aspirations dreaded the thought!
Thank God, many many patients have been saved. Who wants to bet she wanted to work in pediatric ICU??
Boyz_Mum
06-04-2009, 07:02 PM
Who wants to bet she wanted to work in pediatric ICU??
Clipped the post respectfully.
This sentence gave me chills.
jeepgirlva
06-04-2009, 07:18 PM
I really hope they can charge her with attempted murder. It's a long shot but still...
Dakota
http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/Kat4missing/IMG_4272.jpg
She breaks my heart, look at her :(
This poor angel has been in and out of hospitals poked by needles,tubes inserted in her body all caused by her momster because she wanted attention.. hopefully now she will be healthy and running and playing with her siblings soon..
akashana
06-04-2009, 09:59 PM
They should take a good long look at all of her children's health and hospital records, including all her pre-natal records. From what I have read of MBP, it's really ingrained in these moms or caregivers. They may get caught with only one child, yet have a history of SIDS babies or children who have been rushed to the ER under unusual circumstances long before that. Some women who were convicted had incidents as teens with children they babysat. It's really scary.
kaelee2
06-05-2009, 09:38 PM
Friends and acquaintances of Emily McDonald describe the young mother as a leader in the preemie community before she faced charges of smearing feces on her child's IV, causing the girl to stay sick.
In the two days since a hospital surveillance camera caught her actions and police say she confessed, McDonald has been telling friends the media has it wrong. More at link: http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/crime/Friends_of_mom_accused_of_poisoning_tot_speak
cornflakekid
06-07-2009, 01:47 AM
Mom Accused Of Feeding Feces To Child
Emily McDonald Charged With Injury To A Child
http://www.click2houston.com/news/19645914/detail.html
POSTED: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Emily McDonald
AUSTIN, Texas -- An Austin woman was charged with injury to a child after she was accused of putting feces into her 3-year-old daughter's feeding tube at a hospital.
sometimes it seems like there is a contest to see who can do the most vile, disgusting thing.
Columbo
06-07-2009, 10:51 AM
I shoudl also add this.
All 3 of her kids were micro preemies. When she had the last one, the one in question, there was a lot of livejournal drama because a comment was made about having preemies got her lots of attention.
We had raffles and fund raisers to help her with cash and the money was being spent in questionable ways.
I will see if I can find some of these posts but they're about 3 years old so it may take some time.
Sorry if anyone has mentioned this, but is it possible she purposely didn't eat or did something else to herself while pregnant so that she would have micro preemies and thus get attention?
Columbo
06-07-2009, 10:56 AM
And sometimes those feral cats will fight to the death to protect their kittens. There was the a cat in New York that made six trips into a burning building to get her kittens out, suffered severe burns, lost her eyelids. These women are not mothers and don't deserve to be compared to an alley cat. Though they should be trapped and spayed like one.
Yes, that wonderful cat was "Scarlett" and sadly, she just died last October.
Disguiseduser0308
06-07-2009, 12:00 PM
Oh, dear heavens, this terrifies me. My son was hospitalized in May for what we found out was a double kidney infection caused by a bacteria (enterococcus) found in fecal matter. He got it when he or his sister had a bowel movement in the bathtub. Totally an accident, but the results were devastating. 105 fever, altered mental states, too much to list. The tests he had to endure because of his symptoms were horrible. Took 3 days to learn why he was so ill. Each day I lived with fear that I was going to lose him. Sorry to go on like that, hard not to discuss when we just went through a bad time for a similar problem. Even though the introduction of the bacteria was completely different.
MBP is one mental illness that boggles my mind. I am far too frightened of medicine and procedures to ever think the attention from a sick child is something desirable. I'd rather my children never get sick. Hospitals are scary for adults.. I can't imagine how scared children are.
I see little Dakota's picture and I just want to snatch her up and hold her as close I can. I know her mother is mentally ill. The pain Dakota had to endure as a result breaks my heart. Not only for the medical tests and treatment she had to go through, but also because someday she will know her own mother is the cause of a lot of her trauma. That poor little baby.
Disguiseduser0308
06-07-2009, 12:12 PM
I really hope they can charge her with attempted murder. It's a long shot but still...
Dakota
http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/Kat4missing/IMG_4272.jpg
She breaks my heart, look at her :(
:( Does anyone know if she has all these tubes and lines because of her mothers assumed MBP? It was hard to decipher from the few blog posts I was able to get through. Or, is it more likely Dakota was so sick because of her mother? Hmm... I guess we might learn the answer to that if we see Dakota gets better now that she's away from her mother.
Truthful Lies
06-08-2009, 06:39 AM
God...how gorgeous she is...read the blog...this woman is a psycho. I don't really "love" kids, but I just want to scoop this little girl up, read her a story, snuggle and have ice cream in bed...my eyes are watering...this is horrible.
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i44/KniffinAllen/IMG_4125.jpg (http://photobucket.com)
marla
06-08-2009, 08:25 PM
Any updates on the condition of that poor little girl?
That mother belongs :behindbar for life ..
WTH is this world coming to that a Mother (I use that term in a loose manner as this woman is an animal) would do such a thing to her child?? :furious:
Attention. She sought attention and got a lot of it at the expense of her children. It's unthinkable.
Here is an article on MPB. It's called: Prosecuting mothers who maim and kill: The profile of Munchausen syndrome by proxy litigation in the late 1990s.
http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/3501669-1.html
It's an interesting read.
carrie
06-08-2009, 10:46 PM
One more. YOu might need an account to read this, but I will include it.
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the hospital jig *screams*
Midnight early Monday morning we came to the ER because my brilliant 3yr old turned her feeding pump rate up and started dumping severely. Since she has a kidney disorder that affects her electrolytes and a history of aspiration we felt it was best to make sure nothing was off. They admitted us for observation. When we came she was mildly dehydrated but they felt like once she started her normal continuous feeds her fluid status would improve so there was no need to do IV replacement. Monday during the day it became apparent that she wasn't peeing. Her feeds seemed to be going okay at 70ml/hr but her belly was very bloated and there was absolutely no pee. They did a bladder scan and found something like 130mls in her bladder which they said was less than they'd expect. They repeated labs and she was slightly more dehydrated even with her feeds. Not long after the labs she started dumping again rather severely (339 output of diarrhea in 4.5hrs) and they shifted gears to put her on IV replacement at 4pm running at 44ml/hr.
Last night's labs looked more concerning, her potassium had plummetted (this is due to her kidney disorder) she was alkalotic (also from her kidney disorder) but there were no signs of dehydration from fluid loss (sodium and chloride were totally normal, kidney function looked good). At 4am when there was still no pee and it had been 31hrs sans pee, they did another bladder scan and she only had 25ml in her bladder. This morning's labs looked totally normal after they treated her kidney disorder by giving her meds and changing her IV solution. But yet, still no pee. They did a bladder scan a short while ago and found 160mls in her bladder so there is a little pee, nothing like their should be but it's there. *screams*
Where the heck did the 120ml they found in her bladder yesterday go?!?! Why wont she just pee?!?! Why do they keep telling me that she's dehydrated due to the diarrhea when her labs give absolutely no indication of that and she's not had diarrhea for 16hrs?!?! The junior resident just came in to say that they'll give her until 1pm to pee out what's in her bladder and if she hasn't by then they'll draw another BMP. I don't know when I should get concerned and they're being unbelievably vague. Not to mention that once we do get her peeing we have to tackle the GI problems. I have no clue what kind of damage she may have done to her stomach but her gut just seems to have shut down.
Hopefully today we'll get more answers but at least she's feeling much better since they stopped her g-tube feeds. Her belly isn't nearly as bloated and her oxygen needs have come down as a result. So much for our short 24hr observation... The word "discharge" hasn't even been uttered.
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My GOD THIS POOR BABY!!! This is just unbelievably sickening. You can tell from her post above what's going on here. She's the one who turned the feeding pump up, she's blaming it on the child. No telling what she's done to this poor angel in the past three years.
My guess is that the "history of aspiration" is her doing as well. she probably did this kind of thing so much that it finally made the drs and nurses suspicious. How many "accidents" can one child have - KWIM?
I hope they lock her up and throw away the key-mentally ill or not. She's damaged this child for life no doubt.
Belinda
09-04-2010, 08:31 AM
by JESSICA VESS / KVUE News
kvue.com
Posted on July 30, 2010 at 11:14 AM
Updated Friday, Jul 30 at 11:43 AM
A mother accused of poisoning her young daughter with feces is headed to jail.
Judge Julie Kocurek revoked Emily Beth McDonald's pre-trial bond Friday morning and ordered her into custody.
The Family Protective Services case worker over seeing McDonald's case reported finding McDonald in violation of her bond agreement. Prosecutors filed a motion asking Judge Kocurek to revoke the bond.
McDonald came to court Friday morning for a bond hearing. She showed up with a large group of her family by her side. The family sat together in the front seats of Judge Kocurek's courtroom.
Prosecutors called the case worker to the stand. The case worker testified that she made an unannounced trip to the house of where McDonald was living. She testified to finding two un-identified children in the house with McDonald including a toddler and infant.
More at link:
http://www.kvue.com/news/Mother-accused-of-poisoning-her-child-in-court-99630859.html
Not seeing a trial date yet.
Salem
09-04-2010, 11:26 AM
So all the kids now are with their respective dads. One dad supports McDonald and allows their two kids to stay in touch with her and see her. I'll bet dollars to donuts, that this dad loses custody of the kids if anyone comes forth to put up a fight for them. Heck, he could even lose them to foster care if he isn't careful. The woman is not allowed around children - he should listen up and do what the court says!
Salem
PS - I'm glad she is going to jail and that the Social Worker did her job and asked the judge to revoke the bail.
Debbie3223
09-04-2010, 01:51 PM
I just have no words... except that is... the face of a real angel... she looks so sweet and serene...i dont care about her mental ilness... i dont think she needs to be around kids. ever again.. she may strike again ...
LadyL
09-04-2010, 08:21 PM
well, I wonder if she's done any therapy or gotten on meds since she admitted to doing it
if so, it hasn't worked b/c she intentionally disobeyed her bond agreement and was discovered in the same house with children
her family should've made sure that didn't happen while they were around, especially if they put up any money/assets for her bond
I was willing to allow her a chance at redemption (in my mind) b/c of her mental illness - however she clearly did not take the law or the court seriously so she is hopeless (and so is the one 'babydaddy' and any others who think it's ok for her to be around children)
she reminds me of Marykate Latourno (sp.) even though the case circumstances are completely different
I hope she goes to prison
I hope her children can grow up normally
believe09
09-04-2010, 08:27 PM
I do not believe in Munchausen's by proxy per se-I believe that it is child abuse plain and simple.
She should be revoked. These folks dont get how ill this woman has to be to use her child as a bid for attention and props.
SunnieRN
09-04-2010, 09:20 PM
We had a case at our hospital two years ago (before the pediatric patients got moved to their own floor. This was a grandma, who was raising 5 grandchildren. One was constantly sick and bruised, failure to thrive. We put a camera in the room. Whenever the child tried to eat, she slapped him, or stuck her fingers down his throat. She would roll a hard ball over his skin, very firmly, causing deep bruises. She would also terrorize him whenever he fell asleep. All of this occured in one day, as she was observed. She didn't get jail time, but became an in patient on a psych ward. The question of whether she knew right from wrong should have been asked and punishment determined by the answer. The other kids were happy and healthy. I will never understand why people pick on one child?
believe09
09-05-2010, 12:27 AM
This is somewhat o/t-I had a friend who was accused of it because she had one child who was thin and showed signs of organ damage. The toddler was hospitalized for a week and mom was observed; the staff saw nothing. The toddler was interviewed and the social worker wrote that the toddler told her "mommy says I will get sick if I eat." Keeping in mind that the staff was primed to be watching for something. Mom was told of the accusation, another physician interviewed the child and it was determined the toddler actually said "Mommy told me I will get sick if I DONT eat." The child was transferred to another hospital where it was determined that he had neuromuscular disease and likely had since birth....so it wasnt the parent at all. Similar in that the child had healthy siblings.
I think that the Munchausen's dx is a faux dx-JMVHO. I think there are people who abuse their children for all kinds of reasons, and attention may be one of those reasons. I think that Munchausen's targets a particular gender.
Back o/t the parent in Sunnie's story and the parent in this story are clearly incredibly ill.
mom2six
09-06-2010, 06:45 PM
It would be nice to hear an update on the child's condition, though it probably won't happen since she is a minor. If anyone comes across anything, please post.
mysterygirl
09-06-2010, 06:55 PM
I bet this little girl gets a lot better with momster out of the picture.
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpps/news/local/emily-mcdonald-pleads-not-guilty-to-putting-feces-in-kids-feeding-tube-11122010-ktbcw_10582514
Emily McDonald Pleads Not Guilty to Putting Feces in Kids Feeding Tube
Emily McDonald was back in court Friday as her attorneys tried to get the indictments against her quashed.
Judge Kocurek set a date to begin the trial for January 10.
MorenoI
11-18-2010, 12:00 PM
How disgusting and wrong! I was also wondering like one of the other posts. If she purposely induced herself to have these preemies? It just seems like there is so much info out there that she could have researched. I don't know, like don't do this during pregnancy and she did it and caused her children to be born early?? IDK just a thought.
Texas Mist
11-29-2010, 07:33 PM
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Published: Nov. 29, 2010 at 7:13 PM
She was freed on personal recognizance shortly after being charged, but McDonald was ordered back to jail in July by state District Judge Julie Kocurek after she violated an order not to have contact with children.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/11/29/Woman-in-poisoning-case-out-on-bail/UPI-48501291076034/
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