Fake science led a mom to feed bleach to her autistic sons

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https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/f ... e-n1017256

That's terrible.

I am not shocked that a mother in a state where she is getting minimal support would try this type of treatment. I do find is shocking that doctors are willing to sign off on it.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I have no sympathy for parents who hide behind "it says so on the internet" to commit such horrible acts against their children. Stupidity and ignorance don't make you exempt from the law - except, apparently when you're harming your own kids.

I cannot understand in what kind of world this woman was not arrested and the children removed from her "care". Is it legal in Kansas to poison anyone, of just your children?

This is just sickening and incredibly sad and disturbing

If you look at the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for chlorine dioxide, it is damaging to internal organs when consumed. It would have to be very dilute (pool water level or below) for it to not cause some sort of damage. That should be enough information to stop most people from using it in that manner. However, this story happened in Kansas whereby the local population does not tend to read (or believe) in warning labels on chemicals. They have to learn the hard way, at the health expense of the two adult sons.

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My bad, I didn't realise the sons were adults - this at least changes the legal aspect.

Somehow the mother had to have advance knowledge of when the authorities were coming.

I wonder how functional the two men would be if they were not in such a toxic environment literally and figuratively.

Kansas is full of ignorant people based upon my many years of observing them when I lived there. I am sure there are very intelligent ones, but they seem to be few and far between the rest. In the rural area that I lived in, it had a real Wild West feel to it and not in a good way. Certain people could do no wrong there. I know of people that talked their way out of a DUI simply because of whom they were. They just got told to drive carefully on their way home. A true “Good Ole’ Boy” mentality exists in that state. You did not want to be on the other side of the coin, as I have known of innocent people being charged with crimes as a means to get even. Trying to save them puts you into the same class as the innocents that you are trying to help. Mother Nature is the great equalizer there. Mark my words, Kansas will pay a large price someday from the misuse of the land and water that they depend upon to exist.

Apparently she (the mother) only said she had a Dr's note, but it wouldn't be hard to get in any case. There are plenty of doctors out there who will say just about anything if its profitable enough for them.

It's too bad that parents like that have to exist in the 21st Century.