Prosecutors believe the suspect knew the mixture would cause her son to be hospitalized, giving her a break from caring for him.
Kaitlynn Grace Dominick, 22, is charged with manslaughter and aggravated child abuse after prosecutors say she injected a liquid chemical mixture into her son’s feeding tube, leading to his death.
SheA judge set Dominick’s bond at $75,000. As conditions of making bond, she will be on GPS house arrest with few exceptions. She can have no contact with anyone under the age of 18, must stay in the state of Alabama and must surrender her passport.
The case came to light after the medical team at USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital made a mandatory report to the Department of Human Resources. Dominick brought her 1-year-old son, who suffered from a medical condition requiring him to use a feeding tube, to the hospital on May 4. He died the next morning.
Authorities say hospital staff were alarmed by the boy’s lab results, prompting the physician to make the report to DHR, who contacted the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.
“We ultimately came to the conclusion that there was a concoction, a liquid mixture, that was introduced into the child’s preexisting feeding tube that then led to this medical emergency that ultimately led to the child’s death,” said Capt. Justin Correa with the sheriff’s office. A criminal complaint described the mixture Dominick allegedly gave her son as being made up of table salt and another liquid. Investigators say the mixture was deadly for a child with his medical condition.
“In this mixture, the level of ingredients that were given to this child, maybe to an adult, a normal, healthy adult might not have presented the way it did, but of course a child, a 17-month-old who has preexisting medical conditions, I think it could have lended to a greater medical emergency,” Correa said. Prosecutors say they believe Dominick knew the injected concoction would cause her son to become ill and to be hospitalized, giving her a break from caring for him.
“I do believe that she did know that this would harm the child, and I do believe she did it because she knew that if the child was taken to the hospital that there would be adequate nursing staff, adequate doctors, adequate medical professionals who would then be tending to that child,” said Teresa Heinz, chief assistant district attorney for Baldwin County.
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