Start of child abuse with contaminated syringes

Start of the trial: Child tortured for months with contaminated syringes

On Monday begins before the Hamburg district court, the trial of a 30-year-old mother, who is said to have tormented her son for months with contaminated injections. The accused apparently suffers from a rare disease. It is still unclear whether she is guilty.

Mother administered her own child contaminated injections
From Monday, the Hamburg district court has to deal with a particularly gruesome case of child abuse. For months, a 30-year-old mother is said to have tormented her child with contaminated injections. According to the indictment, "in 2013, the defendant administered her three-year-old son with saliva, faeces, flower water or other foreign substances added substances directly under the skin or directly into the bloodstream, so as to create a condition requiring treatment," said the court in a press release.

Three-year-old boy was in mortal danger
According to the information, the boy had been hospitalized several times in 2013 and had been treated with medication. Among other things, the child suffered from severe abdominal pain, fever episodes, blood pressure drops and wastes of oxygen saturation. At times it even floated in acute danger to life. According to the prosecutor, the defendant suffers from the so-called Munchausen syndrome. It is a rare mental disorder. Nationwide, there should be only between 50 and 200 cases.

Mother suffers from rare mental disorder
Those affected - mostly the mothers - fool and even cause illnesses of their children to give the child medical treatment. Then the perpetrators appear to be extra caring and enjoy the attention and attention they receive. However, if the mother should still be fully culpable threatened her, according to the news agency dpa for mistreatment of wards in tateinheit with dangerous bodily injury and breach of duty of up to 15 years imprisonment. (Ad)