Medics who had asked Beth Reilly if she had been abusing her son came back with their heads bowed to deliver the devastating news
A mum claims she was accused of abusing her baby after he developed mysterious bruises before a blood test later confirmed he had leukaemia. Beth Reilly, 23, became worried when her son Bailey Kilbane, now 16 months old, started coming out in unexplained bruises and flu-like symptoms last October.
The mum was left horrified by the question, but the hospital told her it is standard procedure to ensure the safety of the patients in its care. Beth said: "If you're worried, you need to press them to get tests done. I still often think back to the experience and it was horrible to be questioned about abusing your own child - but I know that they needed to do it.
Beth first noticed something was wrong with her baby when he suddenly became very tired, cold and was falling over a lot, picking up more than a dozen bruises. Top news stories today "They at first said that they were not worried and sent me home, but I later came back three more times. Eventually I said that I was not leaving unless they did a blood test, and they agreed to keep him in overnight and did tests that morning.
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