Australia: Mother admits killing son with methadone

Submitted by Minuteman on Mon, 2012-09-17 03:38

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'An Adelaide woman has admitted killing her five-year-old son by putting methadone in his cordial.

Lisa Anne Collard, 45, pleaded guilty in the South Australian Supreme Court on Monday to the manslaughter of her son Christopher on June 7 last year at their Modbury Heights home.
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A court has previously heard Collard was trying to treat her son's cold when she put the methadone in a bottle of green cordial.'

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