Mom Charged After Murdering Baby With A Teaspoon Of Salt

As parents, we try our best to keep our little ones happy and healthy, taking every possible precaution to make sure they are living their best lives.

However, sometimes we don’t even realize our parenting may be doing more harm than good and we’re doing the opposite of protecting our kids. Then there are the parents who are sadly so sick they do things to purposely hurt their children.

Take, for example, this tragic story that thankfully had a happy ending about a mother who tried to bake her toddler daughter in a 600-degree oven. Even many years later, the motive and circumstances of that shocking story are unclear.

While police don’t have all the information about a woman charged with felony child abuse, they know one thing is certain: something does not add up about 23-year-old Kimberly Martines’ young daughter’s condition.

This Spartansburg, South Carolina mother has been accused of feeding her 17-month-old daughter a nearly fatal amount of salt. While you may not think salt is very poisonous, just one teaspoon of salt was enough to cause the toddler to have seizures and a high fever, according to a press release from Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Kevin Bobo.

The mother was later arrested after the baby was admitted to the hospital, where she remains on life support. The hospital’s staff immediately notified the sheriff’s office of the baby’s hypernatremia, or salt poisoning, which occurs when excess salt is present in the bloodstream, causing cells to shrink as water rushes out of them. This can lead to torn blood vessels as the cells are forced out of their normal location, WYFF 4 wrote online.

Police don’t know why the mother gave her daughter such a startling amount of salt, but while her daughter remains on life support, her twin and older child are in protective custody.

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