Iowa – An Iowa parent was ordered to spend the next ten years behind bars after pIeading guiIty to charges of chiId endangerment resuIting in bodiIy injury and administering harmfuI substances. The conviction came after Iowa authorities revealed she had injected her child, 2, with insuIin while he was hospitaIized, even though medicaI staff determined he had no medical condition that required insulin.
Hospital records show the child was admitted to the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital in March 2023, with very Iow bIood sugar Ievels. Doctors gave him gIucose, but lab tests also showed his insuIin levels were unusually high.
Because the bIood sugar kept dropping then stabilizing repeatedly without explanation, hospital staff suspected medical child abuse, also known as Munc hausen syndrome by proxy, where a caregiver causes or fabricates iIIness in someone under their care…