- Tajahnae Brown, 23, had a hearing in Bronx Supreme Court and was released
- The ‘no more rules!’ sweater she wore at her hearing cost $12.49 at Shein, and she paired it with a “mea culpa” hat, which retails for $8 on Amazon
A mother accused of poisoning her four-year-old daughter attended a hearing today after being released on bail – wearing a sweatshirt that read: ‘No more rules.’
Tajahnae Brown, 23, of the Bronx, New York City, is accused of poisoning her child and making 190 trips to the hospital to seek unnecessary medication. She is believed to be suffering from Munchausen syndrome-by-proxy.
She was charged with attempted murder for nearly killing her daughter with epilepsy medication she did not need. Brown attended a hearing in Bronx Supreme Court on February 7.
She was released on bail — and she is confined in her home under electronic monitoring with the additional conditions of supervised release, the district attorney’s office said.
The flashy ‘no more rules!’ The sweater she wore to her hearing retails for $12.49 at Shein, and she paired it with a “mea culpa” hat, which retails for $8 on Amazon.
Tajahnae Brown, 23, of the Bronx, is accused of poisoning her child and making 190 trips to the hospital to seek unnecessary medication. The flashy ‘no more rules!’ sweater she wore at her hearing cost $12.49 at Shein, and she paired it with her “mea culpa” hat, which retails for $8 on Amazon
The mother listens to the judge in court on Wednesday
Mea culpa means ‘through my fault’ in Latin and is used as an exclamation of regret.
She was charged in October with attempted murder, attempted manslaughter and first-degree assault over the treatment of her daughter.
Authorities believe Brown suffers from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a condition in which people fabricate or deliberately induce symptoms of illness in someone they care for, usually a child, in order to get attention.
The incidents began on May 2 when she brought her daughter, then three years old, to Montefiore Medical Center claiming she was taking seizure medication and needed more.
“She repeatedly stated that the child needed the medication, prompting staff to administer more doses,” a police source said at the time.
Hospital staff then realized the young girl had “toxic levels” of drugs in her blood.
According to the source, she was “poisoned by the drugs.”
Brown was notified of the overdose and the girl was taken off the medication, police said.
The child was still in the hospital with the mother and her drug levels dropped before reportedly going back up.
It is believed Brown continued to “discreetly administer the drugs to life-threatening levels,” the source added.
Tajahnae Brown walks out of the courtroom in the Bronx on Wednesday
Brown, 23, pictured when she was first charged
The hospital staff then called the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, which alerted the New York City Police Department.
The investigation revealed that the mother had taken her daughter to different healthcare providers 190 times to have her daughter prescribed the same harmful drugs.
Brown told doctors and nurses “the same story” to medical providers, the police source said.
Harold Williams, who lived in the same building as the mother, said News12: ‘I don’t know her, that’s a shame, every baby who is abused by his parents is terrible.
“You have to be careful, people with problems have to seek help and get the right help so that things like this don’t happen.”
She has no prior criminal record and was released on supervised release and electronic monitoring at her arraignment in October.