Australia: Mother put drug in son's bottle: court

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'An Adelaide woman allegedly killed her sick five-year-old son by putting methadone in his cordial bottle, a court has heard.

The 44-year-old woman appeared at the Holden Hill Magistrates court on Wednesday charged with manslaughter and administering prescription medication to the boy.

Police prosecutor Jessica Esplin said the woman's two older sons, aged 15 and 16, had told police their mother had given their younger brother the drug during the night after mother and child had been coughing.

"(The older boy) states that some time during the morning he woke with his mother yelling...(that) his brother was not breathing," she said.'