Evil mom drained son’s blood to pretend he was dying

A “heinous” Minnesota mom tortured her three kids to make them look seriously sick and get money for their care — almost killing her 9-year-old son by draining his blood to pretend he was dying of a mystery illness.

Jordan Nicole Borders, 34, put her kids through five years of abuse that was “nothing short of horrifying,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said as the mom was sentenced to 39 years in prison. “Borders’ crimes are some of the most heinous and agonizing I have seen.”

Doctors became suspicious in 2022 when Borders’ young son had “dangerously low levels of hemoglobin” in his blood with no obvious explanation — and they realized her other kids had mysterious illnesses, too, for which the mom was collecting tens of thousands to help pay for treatment.

Her 8-year-old daughter wore an unprescribed hearing aid, causing a boil on the back of her ear, while her 11-year-old son wore a cast for more than two years while supposedly suffering from brittle bone disease.

When interviewed, the kids told cops that their mom had been withdrawing blood with a syringe from the 9-year-old boy, who said it left him “sick-sleepy.” The mom chatted with people online about needing help with end-of-life care for the boy.

The children told investigators that their mom, from Crosslake, would make them vomit at doctors’ appointments to appear sick. She would also beat them with charging cords, belts and spoons and threaten to withhold food and even kill them. If they disobeyed, she made them stand outside, naked.

Throughout, Borders received Medicaid assistance as well as gifts and money from non-profit foundations for her children’s fake illnesses.

“The medical issues in the children were created by her,” prosecutor Dominika Kins said at the sentencing hearing Thursday, according to the Brainerd Dispatch.

“She abused her position of authority,” said Kins. “And she stripped [her children] of an actual childhood.”

Borders was earlier convicted of attempted murder as well as child torture and theft by representation.

“The facts we proved in court are nothing short of horrifying,” said Ellison, the state attorney general.

“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. I ask every Minnesotan to join me in praying for these children’s healing.”

The 9-year-old boy was placed in protective custody in May of 2022, according to the Dispatch. The other two children were removed from the home in July. Borders’ parental rights to the three children have been terminated.

Borders’ own mom told the court in an impact statement that she’d been kept from seeing her grandkids, and felt relieved that she could finally see them.