‘If I get it wrong the child dies’: Doctor’s Munchausen fears questioned in court
Professor David Isaacs was accused of making wild speculations about a woman he suspected was trying to poison her son
A paediatrician’s “mad idea” that a mother was deliberately poisoning her own son with faeces resulted in her being dragged through the criminal justice system for six years, it has been claimed.
The 39-year-old is now likely to be acquitted after prosecutors admitted that there was not enough evidence to prove their claims that she had injected faecal matter into a cannula while the boy was being treated at Sydney’s Westmead Hospital.
