Virginia mother admits to injecting son with her own blood
03/15/2019 7:00 am PDT
via WTVR
FAIRFAX, Va. (WTVR) -- A Fairfax mother accused of injecting her son with "an unknown substance" has admitted that it was her own blood.
The incident happened in April at Inova Fairfax Hospital.
Elizabeth Malone said she did it because she wanted the hospital staff to respond faster to her five-year-old child's medical needs.
Unable to speak, her son and had been taken to the hospital several times. Staff became suspicious and a camera was placed in the boy's room, which is how investigators say they caught Malone in the act.
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