Ohio Mom Accused of Injecting Feces into Child’s IV at Columbus Hospital

An Ohio mother is facing serious charges after police say she injected what appeared to be human fecal matter into her hospitalized child’s IV line — not once, but twice.

Tiffany Le Sueur, 35, was arrested after hospital staff at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus reported witnessing her tampering with the child’s intravenous line earlier this month.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Franklin County, medical staff first alerted authorities on February 6, 2026, after allegedly seeing Le Sueur inject a “foreign substance” into her child’s IV.

Two days later, staff say it happened again.

This time, surveillance cameras allegedly captured the disturbing sequence.

Investigators say Le Sueur was seen walking into a hospital restroom carrying a cup. Minutes later, she returned to the child’s room. Video allegedly shows her drawing what appeared to be fecal matter into a syringe and injecting it into the IV line connected to the child’s left hand.

Hospital officials immediately contacted Columbus police.

“This is one of the most disturbing allegations we’ve seen involving the intentional contamination of a medical device,” a law enforcement source familiar with the case told us. “IV lines go directly into the bloodstream. Introducing bacteria-laden material can be deadly.”

Police have not released details about the child’s condition. It remains unclear whether the child suffered infections or long-term complications.

Le Sueur has been charged with child endangerment. She appeared in court Tuesday morning, where a judge ordered that she have no unsupervised contact with children as part of her bond conditions. Her preliminary hearing is scheduled for February 19, 2026.

Court documents do not indicate a motive. However, experts say cases like this sometimes raise questions about a rare but serious form of abuse known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy — now referred to as Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another.

In these cases, a caregiver fabricates or induces illness in a child to gain attention, sympathy, or control over medical decisions.

“Injecting contaminants into an IV line can trigger severe infections,” said a pediatric infectious disease specialist not connected to the case. “It can cause sepsis, organ failure, and in extreme situations, death.”

This is not the first time Ohio has seen such allegations.

In 2015, Candida Fluty, also of Ohio, was sentenced to six years in prison after admitting she injected fecal matter into her son’s IV at a Cincinnati children’s hospital. She told investigators she wanted doctors to pursue a different course of treatment.

Similar cases have surfaced in other states. In Indiana, a mother was convicted in 2016 after injecting feces into her teenage son’s IV bag during leukemia treatment, causing life-threatening infections. In Texas, another mother was accused of smearing fecal matter on her child’s feeding line inside a hospital.

Prosecutors in the Columbus case have not announced whether additional charges could follow pending medical findings.

For now, the focus remains on the child’s recovery — and on how something so alarming allegedly happened inside one of the nation’s leading pediatric hospitals.

“This is every parent’s nightmare,” a hospital safety advocate told us. “Hospitals are supposed to be the safest place for a sick child. When trust is broken like this, it shakes people.”

The investigation remains ongoing.