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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Adam Everett

'Beautiful and happy' baby secretly 'poisoned' by her own mum

A baby girl spent extended periods in hospital after her own mum "poisoned" her food with excessive quantities of salt.

The youngster was admitted to Alder Hey Children's Hospital for several weeks when she was just over one year old while doctors attempted to identify the cause of a supposed mystery illness, which would routinely cause her to vomit. But the child's mother had in fact been secretly lacing her food with huge amounts of salt.

She then attempted to frame the father when her sickening abuse was discovered. The woman - who cannot be named for legal reasons - was jailed for her shocking and largely unexplained crimes at Liverpool Crown Court today, Thursday.

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