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| Baby injection woman on probation | |
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| A woman who injected a friend's baby with an insulin overdose because she was jealous of her healthy daughter has been put on probation for three years. | A woman who injected a friend's baby with an insulin overdose because she was jealous of her healthy daughter has been put on probation for three years. |
| Veronica Duncan, who had lost her own daughter just months before, left the child close to death. | Veronica Duncan, who had lost her own daughter just months before, left the child close to death. |
| Duncan, 41, a former nurse at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, admitted assaulting the baby to the danger of her life in the Borders on 7 March. | |
| Judge Roger Craik QC told her she had committed a "dreadful" crime. | Judge Roger Craik QC told her she had committed a "dreadful" crime. |
| He said Duncan, a patient at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, had been suffering an "abnormal grief reaction" following the death of her own child. | |
| SENTENCING STATEMENT Read the judge's comments[28KB] Most computers will open this document automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader Download the reader here | |
| The judge added that following intensive treatment it was thought she was not at risk of doing anything like it again. | |
| He ruled that under the probation order Duncan should not have unsupervised contact with children under seven. | |
| He also warned her that if she breached the order she could be brought back to court and face imprisonment. |