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  • When I saw this headline I was like “Oh? Again?” I remember reading this exact same headline years ago. This has actually happened multiple times!

    Fecal matter being injected into IV lines has in the past been linked to Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental illness and form of child abuse, where the caretaker of a child, most often a mother, either makes up fake symptoms or causes real symptoms to make it look like the child is sick.

    In 2015, Ohio mother Candida Fluty was sentenced to six years in prison after admitting to injecting fecal matter into her 9-year-old son’s IV at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. She claimed she wanted to push doctors to take a different approach to treating her son.

    In 2016 in Indiana, Tiffany Alberts was convicted of injecting feces into her 15-year-old son’s IV bag while he was undergoing leukemia treatment at Riley Hospital for Children. The boy developed severe infections and had to be placed on a ventilator.

    An earlier case in Texas saw mother Emily Beth McDonald smear fecal matter on her three-year-old daughter’s IV feeding line at a children’s hospital.