A North Carolina man accused of fatally poisoning his wife with eyedrops is now being accused of attempting to poison their 11-year-old daughter with the same substance, resulting in her hospitalization, according to court documents.

Joshua Lee Hunsucker was booked on Tuesday and prosecutors have asked that his bond be revoked amid concerns he is abusing and neglecting one of his children, neglecting another child and intimidating witnesses in his murder case. Prosecutors argued that he has become “increasingly aggressive” and that his “dangerous actions will continue to escalate,” according to court documents.

Hunsucker, 40, is accused of poisoning his then-10-year-old daughter with eyedrops over a year after he allegedly killed his wife with the same substance. He put the eye drops into his child’s beverage and the substance was found in their urine sample, according to court documents.

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    He is accused of staging his own kidnapping, falsely reporting that he stopped to change a flat tire and a pistol-whipped him in the head multiple times before his hands were zip-tied and injected with an unknown substance.

    So… a pistol whipped him. And his hands were injected?

    Do we just not proof journalism anymore?

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      They fired all the editors. Also the writers. And artists. And photographers.

      Strangely, only management is left.

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    He looks like he’s been micro dosing himself along the way.

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    Apparently ol’ Hunsucker’s been self-administering his own eye drops from the looks of him.

    ‘Bout the worst case of atchaforya I’ve ever had the displeasure to encounter.

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        Why, I thought you’d never ask 😃

        It’s when one eye is looking at ya, and the other one’s looking for ya🤪

        Heyooo!

        But seriously, fuck this piece of human wreckage. Up against the wall with him.

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          Semi-related; my boyfriend asked me a question about politics and I ended a sentence with, “-and they’ll be first against the wall when the revolution comes,” with all the tongue-in-cheek a person can manage.

          And while I had half a second to congratulate myself on my delivery, he asked me what that meant.

          Still mortified.

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      This was my favorite detail of the master plan:

      Joshua Hunsucker had told two coworkers that if he killed someone he would do so using eyedrops, according to court documents.

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        The fact that he got away with it once likely made him even more careless.

        I would hope that he gets locked away more permanently this time.

        Two charges is a pattern that the law will not overlook if he was not exonerated of the first charge already.

        It’s actually appalling that he did this to the kid; with the mother gone and himself being under criminal suspicion; it’s highly likely that it would’ve been easy for him to have the child adopted by another responsible couple.