A Tennessee woman has been charged with attempted homicide for trying to poison her 4-month-old son at a city hospital by injecting a saltwater solution into his feeding tube, police said.
Amber Brewington, 21, who was taken into custody late Tuesday after the latest alleged poisoning attempt, told investigators she was trying to end his suffering, according to a police affidavit.
The boy, Noah King, remained in critical condition with sodium poisoning Wednesday at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Brewington told investigators that King was admitted to a hospital in Columbia, Tenn., in May and was later transferred to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He suffered seizures and possible brain damage, police said.
While at the Nashville hospital, Brewington "gave her infant son four to five full syringes of high-volume salt water in attempts to speed up his death," police wrote in an affidavit.
Noah was transferred to the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh on July 9.
The Associated Press
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