Ohio woman exits her son’s hospital bathroom with a cup. What she injected into his IV just got her arrested

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In a horrific child abuse case from Ohio, a mother is accused of injecting a “foreign substance” into her son’s IV as he received medical care at a hospital.

According to multiple reports, authorities arrested Tiffany Le Sueur, 35, of Maumee, Ohio, after hospital staff at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, alleged she injected what they believed to be human feces into her child’s intravenous line.

According to a criminal complaint, medical personnel first observed Le Sueur inserting a “foreign substance” into her child’s IV on Feb. 6. Columbus police advised that all future Le Sueur visits be monitored.

It happened again two days later

Then, two days later, staff reported seeing her once again tamper with the IV, this time allegedly using what appeared to be fecal matter in a syringe.

Surveillance footage reportedly shows Le Sueur entering a hospital bathroom carrying an ordinary cup. She exited the bathroom with a cup that hospital staff believed contained feces. She then allegedly drew the material into a syringe and injected it into the IV line connected to her child’s hand. Officers detained her at the hospital, and medical personnel immediately treated the child.

The Tiffany Alberts case

Cases involving intentional contamination of a hospitalized child’s IV are uncommon but extremely serious. Medical professionals treat any allegations of tampering as a high-risk emergency due to the potential for severe infections or life-threatening complications.

In 2016, Tiffany Alberts, a 41-year-old mother from Wolcott. In November 2016, hospital staff at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis contacted police after her then-15-year-old son, who was undergoing treatment for leukemia, developed unexplained infections.

As CBS News reported that year, surveillance video showed Alberts repeatedly injecting fecal matter into her son’s IV line, a crime she later admitted to investigators. She said she did it so her son would move to a different hospital unit she believed offered better care.

Prosecutors filed multiple counts of aggravated battery and neglect of a dependent. In 2019, a court convicted Alberts on those charges and sentenced her to seven years in prison, followed by probation.

Le Sueur’s charges

Back in Ohio, authorities have charged Le Sueur with endangering the welfare of a child, a felony under Ohio law. At a Feb. 9, 2026, court appearance in Franklin County Municipal Court, a judge set her bond at $250,000. The judge ordered that Le Sueur have no unsupervised contact with minors should she post bail. Her preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 19.

Officials have not disclosed why the child was hospitalized or shared details about the child’s age or current medical condition, citing federal patient privacy protections. Nationwide Children’s Hospital has declined to comment on specifics of the case for the same reasons.