Woman with HIV ‘jabbed boy with needle filled with her body fluids after he flushed her drugs down toilet’
Jacqueline O'Neil "recklessly" pricked the youngster at her home in Dundee
A HIV infected woman who stuck a 12-year-old boy with a hypodermic needle filled with her "body fluids" after he flushed her stash down the toilet is facing jail.
Jacqueline O'Neil "culpably and recklessly" pricked the youngster, who cannot be named for legal reasons, with the needle at her home in Dundee.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard the boy had turned up at O'Neil's address with one of the woman's relatives.
When they walked in, they found O'Neil "under the influence" with heroin and drug paraphernalia lying around her living room.
The boy then took the drugs and flushed them down the toilet before returning to the living room.
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It was then the trouble started.
Fiscal depute Saima Rasheed told the court: "The Crown position is that she was under the influence of something and was waving the needle about whereby it struck the boy on the hand.
"Her version is that she is trying to take the needle away from him when it struck him. However, the Crown narrative is that she was waving it around."
No information was given yesterday about the boy's medical condition.
O'Neil, 32, of Byron Crescent, Dundee, pleaded guilty on indictment to a charge of culpable and reckless conduct and a further charge of assault.
Defence solicitor Gary McIlravey said: "She accepts the struggle took place and that he was struck by the needle, but what she doesn't accept is the lead up to how it happened.
"Drugs were seen by the boy and were taken and disposed of - flushed down the toilet.
";At that point he re-enters the living room and there is a pillowcase with a needle in it. He asks what is that and picks it up and the struggle ensues.
"At some point the boy was pricked."
Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC deferred sentence until next month for a proof in mitigation hearing and O'Neil was released on bail.