While
her teenage son underwent hospital treatment for leukemia, 41-year-old
Tiffany Alberts spent much of her time at his bedside, supporting him in
his fight against the disease. Oh, and allegedly injecting his IV drip
with “fecal matter” on multiple occasions, in what she later told police
was an attempt to get him better treatment.
Alberts’ son, one of
her five children, contracted a number of “unexplainable infections”
while in hospital — infections which were later linked back to organisms
normally found in feces. Following an investigation, surveillance
footage from his hospital room, however, showed Alberts tampering with
his IV line. (It’s not clear what suspicions led doctors to monitor the
boy’s room.) At first she told police she was simply “flushing” the IV
as the medicine prescribed was causing pain, but local news station Fox 2 Now reports
she later confessed to the poop injections — court documents filed in
the case against her reveal she claimed “she did it to get her son moved
to another unit that had better treatment.”
Instead, however,
she’s made her son’s condition far worse — the infections have severely
affected his prognosis, though his condition is now said to be
improving. Doctors told Fox 2 that “he’s required several surgeries to
changes his central venous line due to concern for infection,” and that
“he could have died from any one of the episodes of septic shock.” Also,
the delays in his treatment have meant the chemo is less likely to keep
his cancer in remission.
Alberts has been charged with six counts of aggravated battery and one count of neglect of a dependent.
Credit: cosmopolitan
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