Mother charged with feeding 3-year-old feces

[MuffyBee]

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2009/06/03/mother_charged_with_feeding_3y.html
Mother charged with feeding 3-year-old feces

By Tony Plohetski | Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 11:17 AM
Austin police have charged a woman with injury to a child after they said she repeatedly fed her 3-year-old daughter human waste, causing her potentially life-threatening infections.

An arrest affidavit said that a surveillance video at Dell Children’s Medical Center captured Emily Beth McDonald, 23, on Sunday placing feces in her daughter’s feeding tube. The child had been hospitalized so doctors could treat “serious infections” caused by organisms consistent with those found in feces.
The affidavit said that hospital staff decided, based on that information, to place a camera in the child’s room and that it recorded McDonald taking “fecal matter from a spoiled diaper” and placing it on the cap of a tube that has a direct link to the child’s bloodstream.

According to the affidavit, police interviewed McDonald, who confessed to wiping the end of the tube with feces.

“McDonald advised that she knew her actions would cause her daughter to stay sick,” the affidavit said. “McDonald also explained that rubbing feces on her daughter’s line could cause her to become septic and that it could kill her.”

Bail for McDonald has been set at $100,000. She faces up to life in prison if convicted.

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Whaaaaaaaatttttttt theeeeee frickkkkkkkk????/

is this one of those Munchhausen cases???? for God's sake!!!!

[Toler]

Mother charged with feeding 3-year-old feces
By Tony Plohetski | Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 11:17 AM


Austin police have charged a woman with injury to a child after they said she repeatedly fed her 3-year-old daughter human waste, causing her potentially life-threatening infections.

An arrest affidavit said that a surveillance video at Dell Children’s Medical Center captured Emily Beth McDonald, 23, on Sunday placing feces in her daughter’s feeding tube. The child had been hospitalized so doctors could treat “serious infections” caused by organisms consistent with those found in feces.

The affidavit said that hospital staff decided, based on that information, to place a camera in the child’s room and that it recorded McDonald taking “fecal matter from a spoiled diaper” and placing it on the cap of a tube that has a direct link to the child’s bloodstream.

According to the affidavit, police interviewed McDonald, who confessed to wiping the end of the tube with feces.

“McDonald advised that she knew her actions would cause her daughter to stay sick,” the affidavit said. “McDonald also explained that rubbing feces on her daughter’s line could cause her to become septic and that it could kill her.”

In a statement, John Hellerstedt, the Vice President of Medical Affairs for Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, said: “Because of these security and privacy issues, we cannot comment on any of the details of this case. The Seton Family of Hospitals has many security and safety procedures in place to protect our patients. If we suspect possible injury to one of our patients, we take legal and necessary steps to protect their health and safety.”

Bail for McDonald has been set at $100,000. She faces up to life in prison if convicted.

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[MuffyBee]

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/04/0604waste.html
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Police: Mom put human waste into girl's IV line
Woman charged with injury to child; act caught on hospital camera.

By Tony Plohetski, Patrick George
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, June 04, 2009

When a 3-year-old patient kept having setbacks during her recovery, doctors at Dell Children's Medical Center suspected that the child's mother was to blame, Austin police said Wednesday.

They set up a hidden camera in the child's hospital room that police and court records said soon recorded Emily Beth McDonald smearing human waste on the girl's intravenous line, which can cause potentially life-threatening illnesses.

McDonald, a 23-year-old mother of three who wrote essays and blogged about giving birth to premature children, now faces a charge of injury to a child, a first-degree felony that carries a sentence of life in prison. She was arrested Sunday.

"The medical records showed the child would start getting better, and feces mostly likely would get introduced," said Chris Hallas, an Austin police child abuse detective.

Doctors said McDonald's actions created a "substantial risk for death," according to an arrest affidavit.

Bob Phillips, an attorney who is representing McDonald, said his client is a "fine young woman from a fine family who loves her children very much."

"I believe that as the facts unfold, the impression people have of this young woman will change for the better," Phillips said, declining to elaborate.

McDonald was released from the Travis County Jail late Wednesday on a personal recognizance bond after confusion between two judges about who was overseeing the case and how much bail she should post. McDonald must wear an electronic monitoring device as part of her release.

McDonald's other children — a 6-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son — are in the care of relatives, officials said.

McDonald wrote in a 2007 essay for the American-Statesman about premature births that she suffered from depression after the child was born and "got overwhelmed with the amount of care (her daughter) required."

According to an arrest affidavit, the child was admitted to the hospital April 15 with high fever and "a long history of chronic diarrhea." Doctors at the time conducted blood tests that were positive for bacteria commonly found in feces.

During the next several weeks, investigators said, the girl cycled from recovery to setback, triggering alarm among doctors.

The affidavit said hospital staff had to replace the child's intravenous lines several times because of infections or clots in the lines.

Investigators said doctors decided to set up a surveillance camera in the room.

The affidavit said hospital staff reviewed the tape Sunday and it showed McDonald putting feces from a diaper on her finger and placing it in a tube leading to the child's bloodstream.

According to the affidavit, detectives questioned McDonald at the hospital, and she told them that she had wiped feces in the tube five times during her daughter's hospital stay.

"McDonald advised that she knew her actions would cause her daughter to stay sick," the affidavit said. The document said McDonald told investigators she was aware her actions could lead to the child's death.

The children's father, whom authorities did not identify, was surprised to learn of the allegations against McDonald, police said.

According to McDonald's essay for the American-Statesman, the child weighed 1 pound, 7 ounces when she was born and was in critical condition at one point.

After going home, the child underwent three surgeries, four hospital stays and "too many doctors visits and tests to count," the essay said.

"Feeding continues to remain a struggle and she's still 100 percent tube fed," the essay said.

McDonald also has posted Internet videos that show pictures of her daughter.

During a news conference Wednesday, authorities praised the actions of hospital staff for aiding in the investigation.

The Seton Family of Hospitals released a statement saying that it has "many security and safety procedures in place to protect our patients. If we suspect possible injury to one of our patients, we take legal and necessary steps to protect their health and safety."

After McDonald's release from jail Wednesday afternoon, state District Judges Charlie Baird and Julie Kocurek explained why she had been released on a personal recognizance bond Tuesday, rearrested during the day Wednesday and ordered released again about 5 p.m.

Baird said he was approached Tuesday by defense attorney Keith Hampton, who explained the details of the case.

He said he agreed to allow McDonald to leave jail because he did not think she would pose a public threat and would reappear in court.

Baird said the bond came with the condition that McDonald not have any contact with children unless supervised and approved by Child Protective Services, among other rules.

Kocurek said that when she revoked bond Wednesday and ordered McDonald rearrested, she mistakenly thought Baird had signed the personal recognizance bond while it was assigned to her court.

"I would not have signed the personal bond in this case because of the nature of the charges," Kocurek said.

However, she said it is the court's policy to honor bonds set by other judges.

Kocurek said that in addition to an order that McDonald must wear an electronic monitoring device, police officials also issued an emergency protective order to keep her away from her three children for 30 to 60 days.

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that poor little baby...she has had a tough job just staying alive even from birth! then you have the mother who should have been helping the child,  fighting against her own child living! boggles the mind!
wonder how she treated this child when she wasn't being recorded?
mom needs to go to jail and she should never get custody of her children again...Oh...and while she is in jail, maybe she should get feces sandwiches...! or a diarrhea milkshake! grrrrr...

[MuffyBee]

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/courts/entries/2009/08/25/mother_indicted_in_fecessmeari.html
Mother indicted in feces-smearing case

By Steven Kreytak | Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 03:02 PM

This story has been updated from the original version with new comments from Emily McDonald’s defense lawyer, Bob Phillips.


A Travis County grand jury has indicted Emily Beth McDonald, a 23-year-old mother of three arrested in June after police said she was caught on camera smearing feces on her 3-year-old daughter’s intravenous line.

The grand jury returned an indictment late Monday on a single count of injury to a child, the same charge for which McDonald, at right, had been arrested. The indictment states that McDonald did “intentionally and knowingly cause serious bodily injury” to her daughter by contaminating her medical device with feces on May 31. The first-degree felony is punishable by up to life in prison.

McDonald’s lawyer, Bob Phillips, said he is not surprised by the indictment.

“This young woman loves her husband and children very much and they love her,” he said. “We look forward for the opportunity to present her side of the story at the proper time.”

McDonald’s daughter was admitted to Dell Children’s Medical Center on April 15 with high fever and “a long history of chronic diarrhea,” according to an arrest affidavit. Blood tests came back positive for bacteria commonly found in feces.

Hospital officials set up a hidden camera in McDonald’s daughter’s room after the girl continued to have setbacks in her recovery and after they had to replace her intravenous lines several times because of infections or clots in the lines, the affidavit said.

On May 31, hospital staff reviewed the tape and and witnessed McDonald putting feces from a diaper on her finger and placing it in the intravenous tube, which leads to the child’s bloodstream, the affidavit said.

McDonald has been free on personal recognizance bond since shortly after her arrest.

[Sister]

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“This young woman loves her husband and children very much and they love her,” he said. “We look forward for the opportunity to present her side of the story at the proper time.”
I don't know where this attorney lives, assuredly in outer space somewhere -- because he has suffered from a lack of oxygen to the brain.  A woman who loves her child does not do what she is shown on film doing.  Period.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/courts/entries/2010/01/08/mom_accused_of_putting_feces_i.html?cxntfid=blogs_austin_legal

Mom accused of putting feces in daughter’s IV line wants permission to see children

By Steven Kreytak | Friday, January 8, 2010, 05:15 PM



Lawyers for Emily Beth McDonald, who is accused in Travis County of putting feces in her daughter’s feeding tube, asked state District Judge Julie Kocurek today to amend the conditions of McDonald’s pretrial release to allow McDonald to see her children, Kocurek said.
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McDonald (shown at right), of Manor, has three children, officials have said.

Prosecutors oppose the request, said Assistant District Attorney Jackie Wood.

A hearing on the matter is set for Jan. 26. Wood said the hearing would likely include experts for both sides testifying on whether visits with McDonald would be good for her children.

Since her June arrest, McDonald, 24, has been free on a personal recognizance bond, which was signed by state District Judge Charlie Baird. Kocurek now has control over the case.

McDonald was indicted in August on one count of injury to a child, a first-degree felony punishable by up to life in prison.

McDonald’s then 3-year-old daughter was admitted to Dell Children’s Medical Center on April 15 with high fever and “a long history of chronic diarrhea,” according to an arrest affidavit. Blood tests came back positive for bacteria commonly found in feces.

Hospital officials set up a hidden camera in McDonald’s daughter’s room after the girl continued to have setbacks in her recovery and after they had to replace her intravenous lines several times because of infections or clots in the lines, the affidavit said.

On May 31, hospital staff reviewed the tape and witnessed McDonald putting feces from a diaper on her finger and placing it in the intravenous tube, which led to the child’s bloodstream, the affidavit said.

McDonald has two other children who at the time of her arrest were 4 and 6.

Her lawyers could not immediately be reached late Friday.

(Interesting comments)

[MuffyBee]

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/courts/entries/2010/05/07/mother_accused_of_putting_fece.html
Judge denies child visitation request by mother accused of putting feces in daughter’s IV tube
Friday, May 7, 2010

State District Judge Julie Kocurek today denied a request by Emily Beth McDonald’s lawyers that the young mother be allowed supervised visits with her children while awaiting trial for injury to a child.
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McDonald, who was released from jail on on a personal recognizance bond shortly after her June 2009 arrest, is accused of putting feces on her then-3-year-old daughter’s feeding tube last year. She faces up to life in prison if convicted.

Kocurek said she was following the recommendation of Child Protective Services. A CPS supervisor testified at a hearing this morning that she would not feel comfortable supervising visitation for someone charged with causing serious bodily injury to her child.

Kocurek called the allegations against McDonald “very, very serious” and said she would have never signed the personal bond releasing McDonald from jail pending trial. That bond was signed by state District Judge Charlie Baird.

“The recommendation of Child Protective Services is well founded, it is reasonable, and it will stay in place,” Kocurek said.

McDonald, 24, who was in court with more than a dozen friends and family members, cried after Kocurek’s ruling.

Her lawyers had argued that scientific research shows that McDonald’s children — who are now ages 4, 5 and 7 — would suffer long-term psychological harm from being separated from their mother. Two witnesses they called, including a counselor for the child and a forensic psychologist who reviewed their case, concurred.

Prosecutor Jackie Wood objected to any visitiation.

“It’s a bit of a fluke that we are here on a bond heaing in the first place,” Wood said. “A lot of people who try to murder their children actually wait for their trial in jail.“

Wood suggested that even supervised visits would not be sufficient to protect the children from McDonald, who is accused of trying to harm her daughter last year while the girl was in a hospital.

During the hearing, Wood noted that a surveillance video of McDonald rubbing feces on her daughter’s feeding tube last year, the girl was aggressively kicking at her mother.

“This is a situation where murder almost took place,” Wood said.

McDonald’s defense lawyer Bob Phillips responded by telling Kocurek that the state has no evidence showing McDonald intended to kill.

The girl was admitted to Dell Children’s Medical Center on April 15, 2009, with high fever and “a long history of chronic diarrhea,” according to an arrest affidavit. Blood tests came back positive for bacteria commonly found in feces.

Hospital officials set up a hidden camera in the girl’s room after she continued to have setbacks in her recovery and after they had to replace her intravenous lines several times because of infections or clots in the lines, the affidavit said.

On May 31, hospital staff reviewed the tape and saw McDonald smearing feces on the intravenous line, the affidavit said.

McDonald was indicted in August on one count of injury to a child, a first-degree felony punishable by up to life in prison. No trial date has been set, but lawyers several times referred to the possibility of an October trial.

Outside court, Phillips said he was disappointed. “She’s a troubled young woman. She needs treatment and counseling,” he said. “That’s what we are seeking for her.”

[Sister]

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“This young woman loves her husband and children very much and they love her,” he said. “We look forward for the opportunity to present her side of the story at the proper time.”
I don't know where this attorney lives, assuredly in outer space somewhere -- because he has suffered from a lack of oxygen to the brain.  A woman who loves her child does not do what she is shown on film doing.  Period.

snipped from above article"
Outside court, Phillips said he was disappointed. “She’s a troubled young woman. She needs treatment and counseling,” he said. “That’s what we are seeking for her.”
Apparently the attorney has not moved or received anymore oxygen for his brain.  Question: has she gotten any treatment or counseling since the last time in court?  I doubt it, he would have said so.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/courts/entries/2010/05/07/mother_accused_of_putting_fece.html
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Her lawyers had argued that scientific research shows that McDonald’s children — who are now ages 4, 5 and 7 — would suffer long-term psychological harm from being separated from their mother. Two witnesses they called, including a counselor for the child and a forensic psychologist who reviewed their case, concurred.

Prosecutor Jackie Wood objected to any visitiation.

“It’s a bit of a fluke that we are here on a bond heaing in the first place,” Wood said. “A lot of people who try to murder their children actually wait for their trial in jail.“

Wood suggested that even supervised visits would not be sufficient to protect the children from McDonald, who is accused of trying to harm her daughter last year while the girl was in a hospital.

During the hearing, Wood noted that a surveillance video of McDonald rubbing feces on her daughter’s feeding tube last year, the girl was aggressively kicking at her mother.

“This is a situation where murder almost took place,” Wood said.
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[Sister]

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/courts/entries/2010/05/07/mother_accused_of_putting_fece.html
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Her lawyers had argued that scientific research shows that McDonald’s children — who are now ages 4, 5 and 7 — would suffer long-term psychological harm from being separated from their mother. Two witnesses they called, including a counselor for the child and a forensic psychologist who reviewed their case, concurred.

Prosecutor Jackie Wood objected to any visitiation.

“It’s a bit of a fluke that we are here on a bond heaing in the first place,” Wood said. “A lot of people who try to murder their children actually wait for their trial in jail.“

Wood suggested that even supervised visits would not be sufficient to protect the children from McDonald, who is accused of trying to harm her daughter last year while the girl was in a hospital.

During the hearing, Wood noted that a surveillance video of McDonald rubbing feces on her daughter’s feeding tube last year, the girl was aggressively kicking at her mother.

“This is a situation where murder almost took place,” Wood said.
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I'm no expert in child behavior, but it appears this precious child knew who was making her sick.
 

[MuffyBee]

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/courts/entries/2010/07/26/prosecutor_mom_accused_of_pois.html
Prosecutor: Mom accused of poisoning daughter with feces found with a child
July 26, 2010

Emily Beth McDonald, the woman accused of smearing feces on a catheter leading to her daughter’s bloodstream, was found by a child welfare official last week with a child, a violation of her pretrial release, according to prosecutors.

A hearing has been scheduled Friday on a prosecutor’s request that state District Judge Julie Kocurek revoke McDonald’s bond before trial.

McDonald, 24, who could face a life sentence for injury to a child, is free on a personal recognizance bond. As a condition of the bond, Kocurek has ordered McDonald not to have contact with children.

During a May hearing McDonald’s lawyers unsuccessfully requested that Kocurek allow her supervised visitation with her children, who at the time were 4, 5 and 7.

It was her 4-year-old daughter that McDonald is accused of injuring on April 15, 2009, at Dell Children’s Medical Center.

According to a motion filed by prosecutor Jackie Wood, a Child Protective Services worker made an unannounced visit to McDonald’s parents’ home in Manor on Tuesday and found McDonald with an approximately 3-year-old child at her side.

In an interview, Wood said she did not know the identity of the child with McDonald.

“The defendant placed her hand on the child’s head and stated, ‘Now that you are awake, I have to go upstairs,’ and left the room,” the motion stated.

Wood argued in the motion that McDonald’s actions and the nature of the accusations against her “indicate she is a great danger to children.”

“The defendant’s flagrant disregard for the court’s order further illustrate this danger,” Wood wrote.

The 4-year-old girl was admitted to Dell Children’s Medical Center on April 15, 2009, with a high fever and “a long history of chronic diarrhea,” according to an arrest affidavit. Blood tests came back positive for bacteria commonly found in feces.

Hospital officials set up a hidden camera in the girl’s room after she continued to have setbacks in her recovery and after they had to replace her intravenous lines several times because of infections or clots in the lines, the affidavit said.

On May 31, hospital staff reviewed the tape and saw McDonald smearing feces on cap to her central venous line, the affidavit said.

A central venous line is a catheter inserted into a patient’s chest or neck into a vein or directly into the heart. It allows the quick insertion of medication or fluids and allows monitoring cardiovascular measurements.

McDonald told police that she had smeared feces on her daughter’s central ventricular line cap five times during her daughter’s six-week hospital stay, the affidavit said.

At the time of the May hearing, McDonald’s lawyer Bob Phillips said her two youngest children are living with her husband, who is their father, and the oldest child is living with her own father.

Phillips, who could not be immediately reached, called her a “troubled young woman” who “needs treatment and counseling.”

[Nut44x4]

When I was 3, I still pooped my pants. My mother took my poop, put it in a bowl, sat me in my highchair and fed me poo in a bowl, with a spoon...from my pants. I didn't die or even get sick enough to hospitalize and my mother was never arrested or treated for mental illness, although she should have been. She didn't tell me about it until I was potty training my own Son...many moons later. I don't think I pooped my pants after that. There are certain things I can remember from when I was 3, luckily I do not recall this incident...only from what she told me.

[MuffyBee]

When I was 3, I still pooped my pants. My mother took my poop, put it in a bowl, sat me in my highchair and fed me poo in a bowl, with a spoon...from my pants. I didn't die or even get sick enough to hospitalize and my mother was never arrested or treated for mental illness, although she should have been. She didn't tell me about it until I was potty training my own Son...many moons later. I don't think I pooped my pants after that. There are certain things I can remember from when I was 3, luckily I do not recall this incident...only from what she told me.

I'm really sorry this happened to you Nut.    

[Nut44x4]

Thanks.....I should write a book...and people wonder why I didn't cry when my mom died. 

[Sister]

Thanks.....I should write a book...and people wonder why I didn't cry when my mom died. 

Nut, it's none of my business, so you of course don't have to answer, but I just wonder what made her confess this to you years later?  Was she determined to make you hate her?
Now, I used to go in the chicken yard and feed the chickens by rubbing corn cobs together.  For some reason, I liked to suck on the cobs, including ones that had been laying on the ground, with probable pooh on them.  One day my Dad came home from work and saw me sucking on a cob.  He sat me on the back steps and said you have to eat the whole thing.  He went back to work.  My mom told me I could get up and didn't have to eat the cob.  Oh no, I said, Daddy said sit here and eat the cob and I wasn't getting up.  When he came home from work, there I sat, crying with a nibbled on corn cob.  He had forgotten to tell me it was ok to get up.  Never sucked on a dirty cob again.  Just wanted to share a little story to make your smile. 
 

[melisb]

When I was 3, I still pooped my pants. My mother took my poop, put it in a bowl, sat me in my highchair and fed me poo in a bowl, with a spoon...from my pants. I didn't die or even get sick enough to hospitalize and my mother was never arrested or treated for mental illness, although she should have been. She didn't tell me about it until I was potty training my own Son...many moons later. I don't think I pooped my pants after that. There are certain things I can remember from when I was 3, luckily I do not recall this incident...only from what she told me.

Nut, I was nervous-laughing thinking there was a punchline to this story but there wasn't.  I'm so sorry this happened to you.  No excuse for ever treating a child the way you were.  Hopefully you've grown up able to avoid the serious pitfalls that can result from evil treatment by a monster like that.  I can't say I'm sorry enough.  I know you've given your child(ren) all the love and security they would ever need.  You prolly tried to do everything you egg donor didn't! 

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When I was 3, I still pooped my pants. My mother took my poop, put it in a bowl, sat me in my highchair and fed me poo in a bowl, with a spoon...from my pants. I didn't die or even get sick enough to hospitalize and my mother was never arrested or treated for mental illness, although she should have been. She didn't tell me about it until I was potty training my own Son...many moons later. I don't think I pooped my pants after that. There are certain things I can remember from when I was 3, luckily I do not recall this incident...only from what she told me.

I'm really sorry this happened to you Nut.    

I am very sorry for this happening to you too Nut...wish I could give you a big hug right now..
words escape me right at the moment...

[MuffyBee]

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/courts/entries/2010/11/12/mom_accused_of_smearking_feces.html
Mom accused of smearing feces on daughter’s catheter pleads not guilty
November 12, 2010

A woman accused of smearing feces on a catheter leading into her daughter’s bloodstream pleaded not guilty today to a charge of injury to a child.

Emily Beth McDonald, 25, entered the plea during a pretrial hearing at which state District Judge Julie Kocurek scheduled McDonald’s trial for January 10, according to McDonald’s lawyer, Bob Phillips.

McDonald faces up to life in prison on the first-degree felony charge.

According to a police affidavit, video surveillance set up by officials at Dell Children’s Medical center in 2009 captured McDonald smearing feces on a cap to McDonald’s then 3-year-old daughter’s central venous line.

A central venous line is a catheter, often inserted into a patient’s chest or neck, that leads to a vein or directly to the heart. It allows the quick insertion of medication or fluids and allows monitoring of cardiovascular health.
McDonald’s daughter was admitted to the hospital on April 15, 2009, with a high fever and a history of chronic diarrhea, the affidavit said. After blood tests revealed bacteria commonly found in feces, hospital officials set up the surveillance, the affidavit said.

McDonald, shown above with Phillips during a court hearing earlier this year, was freed on a personal recognizance bond after her June 2009 arrest but in July Kocurek ordered her jailed again for violating a term of her release that required her to stay away from minor children.

A Child Protective Services worker testified at that time that during an unannounced visit to McDonald’s parents’ home in Manor in July she found a child at McDonald’s side.

McDonald remains in jail today with her bail set at $100,000.

Phillips has said that McDonald’s daughter has recovered from any injuries she suffered in 2009.