Alabama Mom Accused Of Killing Her 1-year-old Child By Giving Him A Chemical Mixture Through His Feeding Tube

An Alabama mother is accused of sidesplitting her one-year-old boy by injecting a chemic substance done his feeding tube, authorities say.

Kaitlynn Grace Dominick, 22, was arrested Tuesday connected manslaughter and aggravated kid maltreatment charges, aft prosecutors allege she gave nan babe nan concoction, triggering a aesculapian emergency that led to his death, according to nan Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.

Dominick brought her son, who had a aesculapian information requiring nan usage of nan feeding tube, to nan USA Health Children's & Women's Hospital successful Mobile, Alabama, connected May 4. The babe died nan adjacent day.

Investigators said aesculapian unit became concerned aft reviewing nan child’s laboratory results, prompting them to record a study pinch nan Department of Human Resources, which past notified nan Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.

“It started arsenic a wide investigation to find retired what caused this child’s death, but during nan people of this investigation, it past turned criminal,” Captain Justin Correa pinch nan Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office said.

A two-week investigation recovered that during interviews pinch nan authorities, Dominick gave inconsistent statements astir nan incident.

Then, during a later interview, Dominick allegedly admitted to mixing a solution and administering it to her son, starring to his death.

The substance contained array brackish and different liquid, according to a criminal title obtained by KWQC, and while officials person not publically disclosed nan nonstop substance, investigators said nan operation proved deadly fixed nan boy’s existing aesculapian condition.

“We yet came to nan conclusion that location was a concoction, a liquid mixture, that was introduced into nan child’s preexisting feeding conduit that past led to this aesculapian emergency that yet led to nan child’s death,” Correa stated.

Prosecutors allege Dominick knowingly gave her boy nan substance to intentionally make him sick and unit a hospitalization, which they opportunity would temporarily relieve her of caregiving responsibilities.

“We deliberation that this kid has had a feeding conduit for agelong enough, and Miss Dominick is knowledgeable capable to cognize what she is doing, and this is much of an intentional way alternatively than accidental,” Correa stated.

Teresa Heinz, main adjunct territory lawyer for Baldwin County, said that she does “believe that she did cognize that this would harm nan child, and I do judge she did it because she knew that if nan kid was taken to nan infirmary that location would beryllium capable nursing staff, capable doctors, capable aesculapian professionals who would past beryllium tending to that child.”

A judge group Dominick’s enslaved astatine $75,000.

As conditions of her release, Dominick will beryllium placed connected GPS-monitored location apprehension pinch constricted exceptions. She is besides prohibited from having interaction pinch anyone nether 18, must stay successful Alabama and surrender her passport.