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PITTSBURGH (AP) - A mother visiting her terminally ill son at a Pennsylvania hospital has been accused of injecting herself with the boy's drugs.

Karen Remsing, of Vancouver, Wash., was charged over the weekend with child endangerment, reckless endangerment, theft, criminal mischief, and committing prohibitive acts including possession of the prescription medication.

Authorities say the 42-year-old mother was visiting her 15-year-old son at UPMC's Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh when she unhooked his intravenous line, siphoned out a sedative using a syringe and injected herself with it.
Authorities say Remsing then reconnected the IV line and left an air bubble in the tube which put her son in further danger.

Remsing is being held in the Allegheny County Jail and her preliminary hearing is set for Wednesday. It wasn't immediately known if she had an attorney.