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A mother has been found to have given her child unprescribed medication over the course of a year, leading to a life-threatening infection. The girl was hospitalised and required a long stay at Sheffield Children’s Hospital and 10 blood transfusions. The judge found that the mother’s actions caused the girl, who is now 15, to also suffer significant emotional and psychological harm.
Two other women were accused of harming their children in the same way at the same hospital around the same time, but were found to have not done so.
The children were all long-stay patients at Sheffield Children’s Hospital during 2020 and 2021.
Each child had to have lines inserted into a vein to deliver nutrients to keep them alive. Clinicians at Sheffield Children’s Hospital could not understand why the children were so ill and eventually concluded they might be the victim of fabricated or induced illness (FII), a rare form of child abuse.
The girl’s mother was found to have administered unprescribed medication to her daughter for more than a year. She was given both ibuprofen and piroxicam, while the girl was aware her mother was giving her the drugs, she did not know what they were. The drugs caused the girl to undergo unnecessary medical interventions, including surgery to stop ulcers bleeding
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