Overview
- Alexandra Marie Frost, 27, was sentenced on Aug. 29 to a 10-year prison term after pleading guilty in June to child endangerment resulting in bodily injury and administering harmful substances.
- The case began in March 2023 at the University of Iowa’s Stead Family Children’s Hospital, where clinicians documented dangerously low blood sugar alongside abnormally high insulin levels.
- Staff activated a camera in the hospital room on March 13, and footage the next day appeared to show Frost injecting her 2-year-old son in the foot with a syringe.
- Court documents describe the child becoming distressed during the injection and note the syringe was then placed in a sharps container.
- After Iowa child welfare officials removed the boy from Frost’s care, his glucose issues stopped, supporting investigators’ conclusions about the source of the episodes.