A SICK mum has been sentenced to 39 years in jail for extracting her nine-year-old son’s blood and forcing her two other kids to wear casts and neck braces.
Jordan Nicole Borders, 34, was found to have diagnosed two of her kids with brittle bone disease despite them being perfectly healthy.
Jordan Nicole Borders, 34, was sentenced to 39 years in jail on Thursday[/caption]
The mum was convicted of torturing her three children and sentenced to 468 months in prison on Thursday in Minnesota’s Crow Wing County District Court.
Doctors from multiple hospitals first suspected Borders after her kids began to have unexplained health problems over the space of three years.
They noticed a sudden decline in her nine-year-old son’s haemoglobin levels.
When surgeries and test results failed to clarify the child’s conditions, professionals began to speculate Borders’ role in causing or fabricating his illnesses.
While the mum accused the hospital of taking too much blood, her two other kids – an eight-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy – revealed that they would often see their mum draw their brother’s blood.
The then nine-year-old told investigators that his mum would extract his blood often and it made him feel “sick-sleepy”.
Investigators discovered that Borders was also treating her two other children for non-existent medical conditions.
She had reportedly diagnosed the children with brittle bone disease, forcing them to wear casts and neck braces using material stolen from a doctor’s office.
The 11-year-old boy was forced to wear casts for two years, prosecutors allege.
When cops searched the family home in Crow Wing County, they also found syringes.
During the trial, the children described enduring various forms of abuse.
Borders would allegedly force them to stand out in the cold with no clothes, deprive them of food and subject them to death threats.
The nine-year-old boy told investigators he was forced to sleep on the floor and stay in a wheelchair whenever his father came home.
Borders was convicted in June of attempted first-degree murder and three counts of child torture, along with three counts of stalking and four counts of theft by false representation.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said: “Borders’ crimes are some of the most heinous and agonising I have seen in my time as attorney general.”
He added: “The facts we proved in court are nothing short of horrifying.
“It strains the imagination and breaks my heart into pieces to think about the torture and anguish – physical, mental, and emotional – that Borders inflicted on her own children.”
Borders raked in over $18,000 (£14,000) from the state of Minnesota and an estimated $35,000 (£27,000) from non-profit organisations by faking her son’s illness.
Judge Patricia Aanes said the mum had acted with “particular cruelty”.
It comes as fugitive Travis Decker, 32, is accused of killing his three young daughters and leaving their bodies at a campsite in Washington state after what was supposed to be a three-hour custody visit on May 30.
Their mum, Whitney Decker, reported them missing after Decker failed to drop them off at home in Wenatchee, 150 miles east of Seattle.
