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After a fight with her baby’s father, a Maryland mom allegedly tied a noose around her infant son’s neck with the intention of killing the boy and herself.

Charging documents said police officers went to [Blanca Noehmi Juarez’s] house April 16 while she was having a fight with her boyfriend, who is the 9-month-old boy’s father.

According to the documents, she told police she put a noose around the boy’s neck and intended to kill her son and then herself. Medical officials examining the child said they found red marks on the boy’s neck consistent with a rope being wrapped around his neck.

A woman in Frederick, Maryland has been sentenced to 15 years after she was found guilty of poisoning her own daughter.

Thirty-three-year-old Wendi Scott pleaded guilty in March to first-degree child abuse for sickening her daughter to draw attention to herself, poisoning her with magnesium and using syringes to remove blood.

Prosecutors had alleged that Scott’s behavior was consistent with Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a caregiver fakes or induces illness in another to generate sympathy.