Jurors convict Missouri mother of poisoning 9-year-old son
(AP) — A Missouri mother has been convicted of repeatedly poisoning her son with prescription medications, risking his life in what authorities described as an effort to win attention and possibly inheritance payments.
St. Louis County jurors found 36-year-old Rachel Kinsella guilty Thursday of first-degree assault and child endangerment, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2nv9aYy ) reports.
Assistant Prosecutor Sheila Whirley told jurors Kinsella put the boy at "death's door" and that he has not had a seizure since he was removed from her custody in January 2015, although he still has epilepsy.
Kinsella, of Meadville, Missouri, told police she "accidentally" gave her then-9-year-old son the wrong medication "on occasion," and her attorneys said the presence of various drugs in the boy's system did not prove she was poisoning him.