CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A mother is accused of intentionally causing her 6-year-old diabetic daughter's insulin overdose.

Deva Young, 22, of Warren, is charged with felonious assault and third-degree felony child endangering. She is being held in the Cleveland city jail on $15,000 bond.

Social workers at University Hospitals alerted Cleveland police on March 12 that the girl had between 12 and 77 times the amount of insulin that should have been in her system, according to police and Trumbull County Domestic Relations Court documents.

The type of insulin in her system was synthetic as opposed to insulin the body naturally produces, according to Trumbull County court records.

Doctors concluded that the "extremely high" amount would have meant that someone intentionally gave her that much insulin, police said.

That level of insulin could cause a child with diabetes to suffer seizures, go into a diabetic coma or die, according to police. Both of her parents had previously been shown how to properly give the girl her medication, police said.

University Hospital officials told police that the girl was admitted to Akron Children's Hospital March 3 in a similar incident.

Cleveland and Warren police launched a joint investigation into the case, Warren Police Det. Nick Carney said.

A Trumbull County Judge Sandra Stabile Harwood granted Deva Young's ex-husband Thomas Young custody of the 6-year-old and her 3-year-old children March 29 saying the eldest daughter "would be at risk if she stayed with the mother."

The 23-year-old father divorced Deva Young in 2016. He wrote in an affidavit filed in Trumbull County Domestic Relations Court that his daughter was previously hospitalized for similar incidents.

Caseworkers at Akron Children's Hospital became suspicious when his his ex-wife switched hospitals and took the girl to University Hospitals, he wrote in the affidavit.

The girl went to UH on March 10 with low blood sugar. The hospital normalized her blood-sugar levels, but they later spiked prompting the hospital to take further blood samples, the affidavit says.

That same day, Columbiana County Children Services granted Thomas Young temporary custody because it appeared his ex-wife lied about how much insulin she gave their daughter, court records say.

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