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Alexandra Marie Frost has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars(Image: Johnson County Jail)<\/p>\nMum Alexandra Marie Frost will now serve 10 years behind bars after devastating CCTV footage confirmed hospital staff’s worst suspicions about the treatment of her two-year-old son<\/p>\n
11:58, 03 Sep 2025Updated 12:27, 03 Sep 2025<\/p>\n
Alexandra Marie Frost has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars(Image: Johnson County Jail)<\/p>\n
A woman has been given a 10-year prison sentence after chilling CCTV footage<\/a> revealed her shocking treatment of her young son.<\/p>\n Alexandra Marie Frost, 27, first brought her two-year-old son to the hospital<\/a> back in March 2023, where it was found that he had \u201clow blood sugar levels that required medical intervention, including the administration of glucose, and lab test results indicated his insulin levels were very high.\u201d<\/p>\n Healthcare professionals noticed a decline in the toddler’s condition, noting that there \u201cappeared to be anomalies\u201d, whereby the little boy’s glucose levels would fall and then stabilise.<\/p>\n They began to suspect that this was a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy,<\/a> a mental health<\/a> condition whereby a parent or caregiver invents symptoms or even creates real symptoms to make it appear as though their child is sick.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Chilling moment ex-inmate pulls gun before killing prison guard who exposed affair<\/a><\/p>\n Staff at the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children\u2019s Hospital decided to look into their suspicions further and so activated a camera in the boy’s hospital room, People<\/a> reports. The following day, CCTV footage had captured Frost holding a syringe, which she used to inject her son in the foot.<\/p>\n According to a warrant obtained by the publication, \u201cAfter injecting [her son\u2019s] foot, Frost walks to where the \u2018SHARPS\u2019 container is located and appeared to place the syringe into the container.<\/p>\n Prior to the injections [victim] appeared to be calm, and when Frost injected his foot, [victim] becomes agitated and screams consistent with being in pain.\u201d<\/p>\n Medical staff informed investigators that being injected with insulin \u201cwill lower a person\u2019s glucose levels, which can cause serious health problems, including death.<\/p>\n