As sick as this is, it is nothing new. Ever heard of Medea?
Take that back, you bastaaaaaard!
Did she know that putting salt in the formula would kill the baby? I sure didn’t know you could poison a baby by putting salt in the formula. From the OP I thought she gave the kid rat poison.
Wow. It had never occured to me that salt could kill a baby like that. I would think it would make a baby sick, not dead.
Even if the Grandmother didn’t mean to kill the baby she obviously meant to hurt her and I hope she spends the rest of her life in jail.
Infants and children are particularly sensitive to salt ingestion. There was another case where a child was allowed to liberally salt all of their food on a routine basis. The child was hospitalized for some unrelated reason and slowly died due to imbalance of fluid processing that his young body had become accustomed to. The hospital staff were utterly mystified by the deterioration of the child’s condition and were unable to piece together the cause of death until interviewing the family during the post mortem.
If you reflect upon how bland most prepared baby food is, it’s pretty reasonable to assume that elevated content of sodium and other vitamins or minerals might be a bad thing. While murder may not have been her intention, the perpetrator intended something to happen. Two cups of salt is a huge amount to add into anything save a five gallon drum of infant formula. Too bad the mother did not taste the formula while preparing it. It’s just one more thing I’ll have to put on my check list for the day I become a father.
Above and beyond all of this is the infant’s innocence of any offense or crime. Taking out one’s anger on a defenseless and helpless baby goes beyond the pale of retribution and into the realm of pure evil. This wicked Granny should never again see the light of day.
What, are you expecting one of the kid’s grandparents will try to commit infanticide?! :eek:
Or, you know, just not use formula. It gets recalled from time to time as well for being unsafe. Once for not putting any salt in. But I digress.
That story is just disgusting. Poor, poor baby. 
I don’t understand how people can be like that.
Oh yeah, can’t you just see La Leche League using this story in their pamphlets?
“Unlike formula, breasts are immune to sabotage!”
You know God killed a baby to punish David and Bathesheba.
No, I just think it’s pretty wise to always taste something you are feeding to a helpless infant who can’t communicate verbally. Would you open a jar of baby food and not taste some of it before feeding it to your child? I sure as heck wouldn’t.
I have always thought formula to be a last resort alternative. As the little baby boy said, “Both of those are for me!?! Whoopie!”
Meth freak and crack head mothers have proven that tits are not immune to sabotage.
The reason why I prize my favorite book store is because they put the Bible in their fiction section.
Two cups of salt?!?! How many people eat that in one sitting?
Yuck.
Ah.
Well.
This lady would seem to be a good candidate for the category of “People Who Need To Be Taken Out And Shot For The Good Of Us All”…