A mum who smeared her own blood on her newborn’s lips, body, clothes and bedsheets to fake her daughter’s injuries has dodged jail time.
The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, alleged more than 40 times to medical staff that her baby was bleeding from the nose, mouth and bottom.
Concerned doctors ran tests on the newborn to check for different illnesses, some of which required a stomach endoscopy that was carried out under general anaesthetic and involved intravenous insertions.
The baffled medics transferred the child to another hospital for further tests because the matter was unresolved. The baby’s mum has now been sentenced for ill treating the infant after police described it as one of its most unusual
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