A mother accused of drugging her daughter and feeding her son a battery because she got a thrill from taking them for emergency medical check ups has been found guilty of child abuse.
The woman, whose name is suppressed, has been standing trial in the High Court at Auckland, facing eight charges of ill treatment or neglect of a child.
On Friday, a High Court jury sat late into the evening before finding the mother guilty of six of the charges and not guilty of two charges, while another was dismissed during the trial.
The mother sobbed in the dock after hearing the verdicts delivered.
The charges she was found guilty of included giving her daughter an overdose of medicine, suffocating her son and feeding him a battery.