Poison Attempt On Daughter Alleged

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31729, 12 July 1968, Page 3

Poison Attempt On Daughter Alleged

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, July 10. A mother was today committed for trial in the Supreme Court on a charge of having tried to poison her six-year-old daughter in a ward at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.

Mrs Wilma Alice Shadlow said in the Magistrate’s Court that she did not want her daughter, Cheryl, to go through life in hospital. ‘I knew she was suffering. I didn’t want her to go on suffering. I didn’t want her to go through life in hospital. Some of her treatment seemed to have affected her brain. I wanted her to die

without any pain,” Mrs Shadlow said.

Cheryl was In the hospital from the beginning of May of this year until June 19, when she was discharged.

Mrs Shadlow Said her daughter had had epileptic fits since she was six months old and had been in hospital in Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne. Detective Alan Porter, of the Melbourne homicide squad, said Mrs Shadlow told him she had administered about 50 tablets to her daughter on three different occasions between May 9 and June 9.

Mr E. L. Ross, S.M., refused to grant bail after the prosecutor, Detective Sergeant R. Knight, said that a psychiatric report had been prepared on Mrs Shadlow.