Mom injected human fecal matter into child's IV while victim was hospitalized for suspected abuse: Police

A 35-year-old pistillate successful Ohio has been accused of attempting to poison her kid successful horrific fashion, allegedly injecting a overseas substance — specifically, quality feces — into the juvenile's intravenous larboard during a infirmary enactment earlier this month.

Tiffany Marie Lesueur was taken into custody connected Monday and charged with 1 number of endangering the payment of a child, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

The incidental allegedly took spot earlier this period astatine Nationwide Children's Hospital successful Columbus, which is astir 140 miles southwest of Cleveland. The juvenile unfortunate was admitted to the installation connected Friday, Feb. 6, owed to injuries suffered from suspected abuse, section ABC and Fox affiliate WSYX reported.

The child's name, age, and sex person not been revealed.

That aforesaid day, a infirmary staffer allegedly saw Lesueur usage a syringe to inject an chartless substance into her child's IV port, according to a report from Toledo ABC and CW affiliate WTVG. The aesculapian unit subsequently notified the Columbus Police Department astir the incident, reportedly emphasizing that whenever Lesueur returned to sojourn her child, they would show her interactions with the patient.

While going done surveillance footage 2 days later, infirmary staffers allegedly saw Lesueur again effort to contaminate her child's IV.

The footage reportedly showed her spell into the infirmary bath carrying a specimen cup. When she exited the restroom, the cupful appeared to beryllium filled with fecal matter, WSYX reported. Lesueur allegedly proceeded to premix the fecal substance with a liquid earlier utilizing a syringe to inject the substance into the IV enactment attached to the child's near hand.

Lesueur made her archetypal quality successful Franklin County Court of Common Pleas connected Tuesday wherever a justice reportedly ordered her to stay successful detention connected $250,000 bond. Should she station bond, Lesueur is prohibited from having immoderate unsupervised interaction with minors. She is presently scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal for her preliminary proceeding connected Feb. 19.