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PROUD PARENTS: IN THE NEWS
This is Emily Beth McDonald, the 23 year old mother of 3 that was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she was busted smearing feces on her daughters main intravenous line. After her child suffered many serious unexplained set backs during treatment for a “fever and chronic diarrhea”, the doctors set up a hidden camera in her room. Emily defends her actions saying that the doctors were going to take her daughter off antibiotics so she needed to raise her fever.. Keep reading for the full story of this truly bizarre edition of Proud Parents: IN THE NEWS
A mother caught smearing human faeces on her three-year-old daughter’s IV catheter has been jailed for 20 years.
Emily Beth McDonald, 25, from Austin, Texas, had admitted second-degree injury to a child and wept briefly during the hearing but said nothing.
Speaking outside court Bob Phillips, who defended McDonald, told the Austin American-Statesman she had put faeces on the catheter while the girl was hospitalised in 2009.
He said she wanted to elevate her daughter’s fever so doctors would continue an antibiotics treatment they had planned to stop.
At the time, McDonald was ‘under extreme psychological stress,’ Phillips said, and fatigue and depression contributed to that stress.
‘Obviously it was a criminal act, and it was wrong-headed, but it was done with a pure heart,’ he said.
According to arrest details McDonald told police she had smeared faeces on the girl’s central venous line five times during her daughter’s six-week hospital stay.
A central line is a catheter inserted into a patient’s chest or neck that leads to a vein or directly to the heart. It allows for the quick insertion of medication or fluids and monitors cardiovascular health.
Doctors set up a hidden camera in the toddlers’ room after repeated set-backs.
Travis County prosecutor Rob Drummond said McDonald committed ‘medical child abuse.’
‘It doesn’t have any other rationale than any other form of child abuse would have,’ he said. ‘Our goal in this case was to protect Emily McDonald’s children and to hold her responsible.’
The girl is now ‘thriving and well and going to be fine,’ Phillips said.
She and McDonald’s two other children now live with their respective fathers.
The girl was admitted to Dell Children’s Medical Centre on April 15, 2009, with a high fever and ‘a long history of chronic diarrhoea.’
Blood tests came back positive for bacteria commonly found in faeces.
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Well thats shitty.
What the hell else would you expect from white, trailer trash?!
What a sick bitch
This is called Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome, and it sickens me that her lawyer went as far to say
‘Obviously it was a criminal act, and it was wrong-headed, but it was done with a pure heart,’
People with MSbP purposely make their children ill or worse than they already are so that they can be “needed” and/or get attention for their child’s ailments. This may be the first documented incident of McDonald, but it is more than likely that it is not the first time she has done something like this previously. I wouldn’t be surprised if the child in question has a long line of “bizarre” medical history prior to this.
I’d gladly donate some bullets for her cause. Let’s take care of the problem permanently.
What this woman did was sick beyond belief. There is no denying that. But now that I’ve said that, why is no one jumping all over sodeypop for saying a blatantly racist comment?? Or is it only being racist if the person isn’t white?
This asshole needs to be the second person in a human centipede
(it is a movie see it and you will under stand where I am comming from )
Capo Flynn, lets keep race out of this you bigot.
I’d hit it, the really hit it!
Different daddies? I bet ten to one she was on welfare. I think everyday while she is in prison somone should smear shit in her face. What trash. I hate to see what her parents are like.
Good call Sophie, exactly what I was thinking.
You know what we should start calling these “mother’s” trying to kill their own kids but failing over and over and can never get it right?
“FLOP Casey Anthony’s”.
AKA cowards.
@Lola…..yup. It’s only racist if the person isn’t white. You hit the nail on the head. (Not that I’m racist against nails….or heads).
Look at her picture….she’s white. Therefore she is “white trailer trash”. If she were black she would be a “ghetto ho”. I have to ‘splain everything to ya’ll.
Its not racist if they are white and grew up in trailer. that is our word(s). I can say “white trailer trash” since i’m white and grew up in a trailer. And she does look like a piece of white trailer trash.
@Capo Flynn The same things I’d expect from any other insane person of any other race. There are rotten people of every color. You, Capo Flynn, are on of those rotten people.
I read a story about a BLACK man with Aids who raped his infant son.
There is a story on this very site about a MEXICAN woman who was abandoning her children and punched them in the stomach after they called the police on her.
Michelle Le was murdered by an ASIAN woman.
I reiterate my point, There are rotten people of every race. And YOU, Capo Flynn, are a racist.
i have two words for that sick bitch, firing squad.
i hope they force-feed her diarrhea soup in prison!!!
She should be shot but sense we don’t do that , they should at least sew her pussy shut if she gets out of jail so she can’t have more kids
You know what scares me more than a woman who has Munchausen By Proxy who’s intentionally making her kid sick? That some of the people making reply comments (like Redneckbiker or TropicBlue) really mean what they say.
Wait… whose shit was it, and where was she getting it from?
Sophie is correct. too bad no one said hay this is a insanity case. Just like Uncle June bug smears shit on his face in his prison cell is crazy. This mentally unstable person is sick and needs treatment. unfortunatly president Ronalnd Raygun. lol , did away with mental hospitals were she might have been HELPED !
SHE WAS SICK AND NEEDED HELP PEOPLE !
I wrote a paper on this condition in high school. It’s called munchausen’s by proxy disorder. Basically parents purposely make their children sick for attention. They enjoy when people feel sympathy for them for having and taking care of a sick child. When their child gets better they do what they can to make them sick again. She needs serious help.
To Sophie,
Spot on. I was thinking everything you said as I was reading this aricle.
Oh I’m the sick one anyone who does anything to purposely harm a child if they are “sick” or not should be shot in the back of the head and it should be shown over and over on tv so that other “sick” assholes see it and then just maybe said assholes will think twice about harming children .
To go with Missy’s comment, you know, welfare families get more money from the government if there are multiple hospital visits. I don’t think it’s MSbP, I think it was a desperate ploy to keep the dinero flowing.
So, Think it’s time to seriously take a look at our Welfare System? Oh, who am I kidding? Of course not!!!! Why, Without my hard work paying for scumbags like this we wouldn’t have great stories like this to remind us just how poor and unfortunate some people in this Country truly are!!!!
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“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” -Gandhi
We don’t need to kill people because of the things they do or discriminate against them because of race. We need to educate people an set up better systems for dealing with people who suffer from mental illness, such as this mother. She shouldn’t go to jail, she should go to a hospital. The state should offer the best mental healthcare possible for this child, if needed, and there should be writings on what people should do if someone is suspected of child abuse along with some type of anonymous hotline to call. Ect.
Ok first of all, not everyone on welfare is this ignorant! There are people out there who genuinely need the help.
Second: FUCK THE HOSPITAL! I am so sick and tired of people using their mental abnormalities and brain chemical imbalances as excuses!
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” -Gandhi
We don’t need to kill people because of the things they do or discriminate against them because of race. We need to educate people an set up better systems for dealing with people who suffer from mental illness, such as this mother. She shouldn’t go to jail, she should go to a hospital. The state should offer the best mental healthcare possible for this child, if needed, and there should be writings on what people should do if someone is suspected of child abuse along with some type of anonymous hotline to call. Ect.
Twigs on October 30th, 2011<<<<^^^^^^^BULLSHIT
what a shitty bitch..i would like to see someone in jail shove shit in her vagina
Hey @Twigs u Fuck-o- the Bitch most likely sucked the Government tit for all it could get… And most likely had a “public defender” cause she’s too poor to afford her own legal representation… The last thing this Country needs is State or Government sponsored Tax Payer funded rehab… A .45 hollow point to the back of the head is cheaper than days, months, or years or “therapy,” so that SHE can complain about how bad SHE had it… I’ll be happy to chip in for the tax payer funded casket… At least then I don’t have to worry about the bitch offending again!
^^^^ THAT’S RIGHT ^^^^
She obviously is mentally ill. Some people make themselves sick for attention, and others make their kids sick for the same reason.
23, 3 kids with many father, nuff said.
She should know from shit.
wtf is the matter with the mothers today