Candida Fluty told authorities she was "hoping doctors would take a different medical approach"

Mom Who Admitted to Injecting Son's IV Bag with Feces Gets 6 Years in Prison

A West Virginia mother who admitted to deliberately injecting her sick son’s IV bag with feces at a Cincinnati hospital wept as she was sentenced to just six years in prison on Wednesday.

Prosecutors argued during her trial that Candida Fluty, 35, intentionally poisoned her 9-year-old boy, Elijah, in a bid for attention. She says she did it because she was “hoping doctors would take a different medical approach” to treating him, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

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Fluty, a mother of four, did not elaborate on what that medical approach might be.

Elijah has a congenital condition that’s required multiple surgeries throughout the years. The family normally lives in West Virginia, but had gone to Cincinnati for treatment. While the 9-year-old was at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in January, Fluty mixed feces into a syringe and injected it into her son’s IV bag.

He quickly developed a fever. Had he not already been at the hospital, he could have died, prosecutors said.

“Without the assistance of Children’s Hospital,” said Hamilton County Assistant Prosecutor Anne Flanagan, “it could have been much, much worse.”

Fluty initially pleaded not guilty to two counts each of felonious assault and child endangering, but eventually ended up pleading guilty to one count of child endangering in a plea bargain with prosecutors, according to the Associated Press.

When asked Wednesday by the judge in the case whether she’d injected the fecal matter, Fluty reportedly hesitated, then answered in a low voice, “Yes.”

Fluty’s four children are now in the care of her sister. The mom is not allowed to have any contact with them.