INDIANAPOLIS, IN. (THECOUNT) — Tiffany Alberts has been identified as the mother arrested and charged with battery and neglect after allegedly injecting feces into her son’s IV bag who was undergoing treatment for leukemia, according to reports.
Doctors tested the 15-year-old boy’s blood after he developed some infections and found bacteria normally seen in stool. They then opened an investigation, which led them back to Alberts.
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The 44-year-old mother was caught on camera injecting his IV with a syringe. She also later admitted to it.
She told detectives that she hoping to get her son moved from the ICU to another floor where she thought he could get better treatment. A bag containing fecal matter was also found in the hospital bathroom, according to the TV outlet, reports FOX8.
Doctors reportedly said that if the teen had done chemotherapy while he still had bacteria in his blood, he would have died.
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