"He could not walk": Australian mom said to stop insulin before the boy's death

A close friend of a Sydney mother charged with the manslaughter of her diabetic son told her "do not give insulin shots to your little darling" a few days before her death.

Xuefen Wang acknowledged that she had sent the message on WeChat but could not remember why, saying "until now, I knew of no case of complete cure of children".

She was interrogated on Tuesday in the NSW District Court trial of the boy's mother, father and grandmother, and the Chinese free practitioner Hong Chi Xiao, who pleaded not guilty to the homicide. unintentionally guilty of the six year old boy in April 2015.

The jury learned that the last injection of insulin from the boy to treat his type 1 diabetes had occurred the first day of a "radical" Chinese therapy of slapping and stretching. a week in Sydney.

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The prosecution contends that the four defendants failed in the duty of care that they owed to the child by gross negligence.

Attorney Sharon Harris claimed that Xiao had ordered the family to stop the usual blood glucose tests and insulin shots. She added that the boy's increasing vomiting showed that toxins were leaving his body.

"The last day he was pushed into a stroller because he could not walk," she said.

The mother's lawyer, Ragni Mathur, stated that her client was not a "fanatic of alternative medicine", she had treated her son's diabetes exactly as a hospital had ordered from Sydney and believed that Xiao was a doctor.

Mathur took Wang through some of the 43 pages of WeChat with the mother.

The witness acknowledged that she was aware of a trip to India carried out by Xiao in collaboration with an institute for diabetics, which had had a "positive healing effect" for diabetics and that she could have talked to the mother.

The mother told her that she had started practicing slapping treatment on herself and on her son.

"Yesterday, I slapped the back of my son's hand," she writes.

"After that, he was able to open his bowel, he had a problem with constipation and the result was not bad."

Wang agreed that she sent him details about the workshop, after which the mother asked: "Did teacher Xiao say that people with type 1 diabetes had been healed? "

But when Mathur said that Wang had answered using the Chinese character for "yes", she said the character had a lot of meanings and "in this place, I do not think it means yes".

His answer meant: "I know what your question is".

The trial continues before Judge David Arnott.