Emily McDonald was sentenced to 20 years in prison for second-degree injury to a child. They caught her on a hospital surveillance camera smearing feces on her 3-year-old daughter's IV catheter. She said she did it five times over the course of the child's hospital stay to elevate her fever so they would continue giving her antibiotics. And, surprise, when they got the mother away from the child, the child improved and is now fine.
Emily's attorney said, "Obviously it was a criminal act, and it was wrongheaded, but it was done with a pure heart." I guess we're lucky there are so few "pure-hearted" people in the world if that's how they act!
"Mother gets 20 years in jail." The Dallas Morning News; April 5, 2011; p. 2A.
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