'Devoted' mother a murder plotter: Japanese policeJapanese police arrested a woman believed to be a devoted mother for allegedly trying to murder her toddler daughter by injecting her with rotten water in hospital, an official said Thursday. The woman, 35, whose name was withheld for the sake of the surviving girl, was arrested Wednesday in the western city of Kyoto on suspicion of attempted murder, a police spokesman said. Police said the girl was the youngest of the woman's five daughters. Reports said three of them had died before they turned four due to illness. The mother denied the intention to kill, while admitting she made "rotten water" by letting a mixture of a sports drink sports drink Performance drink Sports medicine A thirst-quenching beverage used in sports-related activities, which may boost energy and/or help build muscle mass; water, sugar, salt, potassium are common to all SDs. See Hydrotherapy, Water. and water go bad, police said. "I didn't do that to kill her. I thought I could continue to take care of her if she gets sick," she told investigators, as quoted by police. Local media said the woman may have a mental disorder mental disorder Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g. known as Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy Munchausen syndrome by proxy n. A psychiatric disorder in which a parent or other caregiver seeks attention from medical professionals by causing or fabricating signs or symptoms of illness in a child. , whose sufferers may intentionally sicken their children so they can perform the role of devoted parents. A hospital camera caught her injecting her 22-month-old daughter with the contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. water through an intravenous drip intravenous drip n. The continuous introduction of a solution intravenously, a drop at a time. , the police spokesman said. The girl was in an intensive care unit of a Kyoto hospital for blood poisoning blood poisoning: see septicemia. . The woman seemed to be taking good care of her sick daughter, with a relative quoted on television as saying she was a devoted mother. But suspicion grew at the Kyoto University Hospital as the girl repeatedly had a high fever after the mother acted strangely around her. "She was excessively hugging her and was interested in the IV but I presumed it was because of her strong maternal instincts," hospital deputy chief Satoshi Ichiyama told reporters late Wednesday. 
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