A young 31 year old mother, Paw Eh, was arrested by Dallas police on Saturday night and charged with attempted murder. According to the police, Eh tried to murder her son by making him eat ant poison. Her four year old son refused to open his mouth and eat the poison from a spoon offered by his mother. Eh then slapped her son and forced the spoon with the poison into his mouth.

Following that, she turned on her other children, 7 and 12, and tried to force them to eat the ant poison, also, according to The Washington Post. Her seven year old son told authorities that Eh told them all that she was going to murder them and then kill herself. The two older children were moved by authorities to the home of a relative. The four year old boy is listed as being in stable condition at a Dallas hospital.

The other children told police that when their mother turned on them, they ran out of the apartment to the home of their grandmother who lived nearby. Eh is a native of Myanmar and had been struggling with some emotional issues according to those who were close to her. She had also had trouble sleeping of late.

Child services has gone in to interview people with regard to Eh’s actions. Many have told the child services people that they believed Eh to be somewhat emotionally and mentally unstable. One neighbor knew her reasonably well as she use to take Eh to the doctors and act as a translator.

The neighbor told authorities that Eh had not been well for a long time. She told authorities that all Eh could seem to talk about of late was that she couldn’t sleep and that she wanted to kill herself. Child services told the media that Eh has no prior record with them. She is being held at the Dallas County Jail on $500,000 bail.