Val-d’Oise: A nurse tried for having poisoned her one-month-old baby with insulin

It is a 46-year-old nurse who is called to appear this Monday at the Pontoise courthouse. She is suspected of having poisoned her own son, reports Le Parisien. Between April and May 2019, this resident of Groslay (Val-d'Oise) allegedly administered several doses of insulin to her baby, then one month old, to the point of putting her life in danger.

It was the Necker hospital in particular which was concerned about receiving the infant twice for strange convulsions. After a report from the Parisian establishment, the medical team suspected a surplus of insulin, caused by injections. This hypothesis is then confirmed during the investigation.

Munchhausen syndrome?

A month later, both parents of the little boy were indicted. The father is exonerated, but in the mother, Münchhausen syndrome is suspected. This personality and behavioral disorder pushes people who suffer from it to fake an illness, on themselves or on a loved one, to attract the compassion of others. According to one of the two psychiatric assessments carried out, the nurse in question suffers from this disorder.

Today, her little boy is 7 years old and has been placed with his great-uncle and great-aunt. The Val-d’Oise Assize Court is due to deliver its verdict on Friday October 16.