Text Title: Mother who laced young son's milk with toxins sentenced to 11 months' home detention
Text Type: Article
Text Creator: Catrin Owen
Text Purpose: To inform people about the mother her laced her own child's milk
Date: Aug 13, 2021
Summary:A woman who researched “drugs that can kill toddlers” before she laced milk with a toxic concoction and gave it to her young child while he was in hospital has been sentenced to 11 months’ home detention.On Friday, Justice Christine Gordon continued the woman’s interim name suppression and sentenced her to 11 months’ home detention, subject to a number of special conditions, including not to associate or contact the victims without approval.The woman is also not allowed to be alone with children under the age of 16 without a suitable adult.