Salt poisoning mother is jailed

**frostyboy** · #1 21st-March-2008

In the UK tonight, this program is being shown on ITV1:

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Real Crime: A Deadly Secret
Today on ITV 1 from 11:15pm to 12:15am

The story of an apparently devoted mother, who slowly and systematically poisoned her nine-year-old son by putting salt in his drip, baffling doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital who were unable to understand his loss of weight and physical deterioration. Petrina Stocker showed signs of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, but legal restrictions blocked attempts to isolate the child

This is a report about the case from 2005:

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A mother has been jailed for five years for killing her nine-year-old son by putting salt in his hospital drip.

Petrina Stocker, of Romford, Essex, was convicted of manslaughter at the Old Bailey court on Thursday.

David Stocker died in Great Ormond Street Hospital in August 2001 from an overdose of 13 teaspoons of salt which his mother put into his drip feed.

On Friday at the Old Bailey, Stocker, 42, was also disqualified from working with children.

Judge Gerald Gordon told her she would have to live the rest of her life with what she had done.

"Public revulsion at behaviour such as this means that a custodial sentence is inevitable.

"You deliberately caused to be fed to him a substantial quantity of salt at a time when I accept he was seriously ill.

"After nine years with no suggestion of harm to David there has to be some force, incomprehensible to me and most people, driving a mother to behave towards their own child as you did to David."

On Thursday, the court heard David was ill for months but doctors were unable to make him better because his mother was misleading them.

Nicholas Hilliard, prosecuting, said the 13 teaspoons of salt poured into a milk drip feed was the last in a series of acts by Stocker.

Stocker had spiked two feed containers with around 18 teaspoons and the boy collapsed after the first one was given to him.

Food containers spiked

David, who had been a healthy karate champion, was in and out of hospital for five months and had turned into little more than skin and bones.

Mr Hilliard said David had been treated since February 2001 in Great Ormond Street Hospital and in Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex, with his mother keeping a bedside vigil.

But doctors could not find what was wrong with him because of the various symptoms he displayed, such as loss of appetite and lethargy.

He said Stocker had put blood into urine samples and manufactured vomit samples, in addition to interfering with his intravenous drip.

Mr Hilliard said: "The episode of salt poisoning was the last in a series of acts done in an attempt to fabricate aspects of David's illness and to produce manufactured or misleading symptoms."

Salt poisoning mother is jailed

bobx23456 · #2 22nd-March-2008

Poison is the most common murder weapon that females use. Most of the time nobody bothers to check for poisoning, even when its obvious. Less than 10% of female murders are ever listed as murder or investigated.

A typical case is like the several months while this boy was poisioned slowley so he suffered for months before he died. It was an extremely heinous crime, months of torment before final death. The doctors ignored the obvious poisoning and didn't bother to check until he died.

When any man or boy dies, or comes to hospital with serious illness, poision should be the FIRST thing his is tested for.

Blessings

Bob

**Ledburian** · #3 22nd-March-2008

I think that killing by poison is about the genuinely most evil forms of killing someone. It is done deliberately, with intent, plenty of time to think of the conseqences while contemplating it and carrying out the act of homicide. It has none of the spur of the moment, seeing a red mist, rising passion and intense momentary sheer blind hatred, despair, insane feelings of sheer hot blooded murder when it's done with a weapon, with little time to realise the ultimate consequences

Poison is the means used with cold blooded calculation, which remains with the perpretator if it means administering the poison over a period of time, but also when it's guaranteed to have a lethal effect with even one dose.

I truly believe that this indicates a particularly evil mind, especially if s/he actually watches the victim consume the stuff.

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