Indiana woman who injected feces into son's IV bag several times during cancer treatment gets 7-year jail term
WOLCOTT, INDIANA: An Indiana woman who admitted to injecting feces into her son's IV bag has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
We had reported earlier that Tiffany Alberts, of Wolcott, Indiana, had been found guilty of seven felony charges for injecting fecal matter into her son's IV bag.
According to CNN, she was convicted of six counts of aggravated battery and one count of neglect in a trial in September 2019. She was not found guilty of a murder charge, according to online documents for the trial.
The 44-year-old mother used a syringe to inject fecal matter into her 15-year-old son's IV several times between November 13 and 17 in 2016 which, according to court documents, constituted her knowingly placing him "in a situation that endangered the dependent's life or health".
Alberts' son had been undergoing treatment for leukemia since early August 2016 at the Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. He was released in early September.
However, he returned a few days later with a fever, vomiting and diarrhea. Blood tests showed a bacterial infection that was caused by organisms normally found in fecal matter.
Suspecting foul play, the hospital set up video surveillance in the boy's room and observed Alberts injecting something into his central line.
Alberts claimed the reasons for her actions was to get her son transferred to another unit of the hospital, where she believed "the treatment was better".
When brought in for questioning by a child abuse officer, Alberts first said that she was injecting water into the IV, to "flush it as the medicine that was given to him burned".
She eventually admitted that she was injecting her son's own fecal matter, which had been kept in a gift bag in his bathroom, into his IV since November 13.
Michael Leffer, a spokesman for the Marion County Prosecutor's Office has said that the convict is set to serve five years of probation following her prison sentence. Her attorney, James Voyles, declined to comment.