A mother who got thousands of pounds a year in benefits after forcing her son to fake illnesses is facing jail.
The 35-year-old from Devon, who cannot be named, even forced her healthy son to have surgery and use a wheelchair.
She admitted perverting the course of justice and child cruelty against her eight-year-old son, who is now in foster care.
The mother has been told by the judge at Exeter Crown Court that she faces jail at sentencing in the new year.
The scam started after the poorly newborn boy was put in a special baby care unit.
"She is a cruel, manipulative, evil mother who constantly lied to the medical professionals"
Det Con Mark Uren
But his mother continued to pretend her son was ill for the next six-and-a-half years.
She once told a paediatrician that he could never keep his food down and he had surgery to install a tube into his stomach.
After that he was put in a wheelchair.
The case came to light after she took samples of her son’s blood to a hospital.
Medics suspected that she had laced his food with sugar to get them artificially high.
Police said she was claiming up to £20,000 a year in disability living allowances and a Motability car.
Det Con Mark Uren, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said after the case: "She is a cruel, manipulative, evil mother who constantly lied to the medical professionals that her son was the most ill child in Britain.
"She is a calculated, manipulative woman."
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