Houston Woman Found Guilty of Poisoning Her Own Child Tries to Claim Medical Malpractice

Posted in Medical Malpractice on October 20, 2015

A Houston nurse was recently found guilty of causing serious bodily injury to a child. She was charged with two counts of felony child abuse after jurors determined that she had been poisoning her own daughter for more than 3 years in an attempt to gain attention and affirmation from friends, family, and online support groups. She faces up to life in prison for her actions.

As strange and twisted as this case was, it had taken an even stranger turn; the woman and her attorney attempted to turn it into a medical malpractice suit. The woman’s attorney claimed that the child almost died as a result of many unnecessary medical procedures performed by doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital, and NOT as a result of the woman’s actions. Her attorney claimed that the woman had been labeled a child abuser to cover up the mistakes that the doctors were making. Prosecutors vehemently denied this, arguing that the woman, a pediatric nurse, pushed for doctors to perform procedure after procedure. Prosecutors claim the woman lied about symptoms the child was having, and that the lies continued to escalate. The child had “more procedures than you and I will probably ever have in our whole lives,” said a prosecutor. There were 15 boxes, containing 40,000 pages of medical records, that represented all the procedures and examinations the child had received. The girl was admitted to the hospital 26 times, with a total of 248 days spent in the hospital while in her mother’s care. After she was taken by Child Protective Services, she has had zero hospital visits.

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