“Rat Daughter” Limited Edition Digital Print
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Andrea Innocent(a.k.a innocentgirl), 2006.

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Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005
DECLINE ALLEGEDLY DETAILED IN DIARY
Girl suspected of slowly poisoning mom
SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) A 16-year-old girl has been placed under arrest for allegedly attempting to kill her mother by slowly poisoning her, police said Tuesday.
The 47-year-old woman is in a coma.

The girl, in her first year at a public high school in Shizuoka Prefecture, so far has denied attempting to kill her mother, according to police, but she has acknowledged that her mother is suffering from thallium poisoning.
Police are investigating to find a possible motive and how the teen might have obtained the toxic substance, which is used as a rat poison.
They allege that from about mid-August to around Oct. 20, the girl repeatedly gave her mother the thallium with the intention of killing her.
The number of times and the manner in which the woman ingested the poison are still unknown, police said. Tests revealed she has the toxic substance in her body.

Police sources said a diary has been discovered in which the girl allegedly recorded her mother's decline. She wrote about how her mother's health had deteriorated, including sections on how she became ill, and had a nettle rash and problems breathing, the sources said. The woman began feeling sick in mid-August, and she was rushed to a hospital by ambulance on Oct. 2. Her condition worsened in the hospital and she fell into a coma.

Her family spoke to police Oct. 20 and the following day the girl became ill and was hospitalized after taking some thallium.
Police allegedly found thallium powder in a plastic container in the girl's bedroom and arrested her once she was released from the hospital Monday.

Drugs and other substances were found in her room and police are testing them to determine what they are.
Thallium is classified as a toxic substance under the Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Control Law. One gram is enough to kill a person.

The substance can be purchased at drug stores, but it is illegal to sell it to anyone under the age of 18.