{"id":280341,"date":"2026-02-12T11:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:09:07","slug":"us-mother-tiffany-le-sueur-accused-of-injecting-faeces-into-babys-hospital-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280341\/","title":{"rendered":"US mother Tiffany Le Sueur accused of injecting faeces into baby\u2019s hospital IV"},"content":{"rendered":"
Detectives interviewed hospital staff, who claimed they saw in surveillance footage Le Sueur entering a hospital bathroom with an empty cup and leaving with what appeared to be human waste. Then they reported Le Sueur injected the substance into the child\u2019s IV, said the complaint.<\/p>\n
A picture of Tiffany Le Sueur from her personal Facebook page. Photo \/ Tiffany Le Sueur<\/p>\n
Le Sueur has been charged with child endangerment, a third-degree felony, according to Franklin County court records. The charges carry an additional specification of torture and cruel abuse.<\/p>\n
Social media profiles linked to Le Sueur suggest she has four other children. It has been reported in the Daily Mail that she lost a baby prematurely in 2022. Media outlets report they have attempted to contact her husband but have not received a response.<\/p>\n
Le Sueur is being held at the James A. Karnes Detention Facility in Columbus. A preliminary hearing is set for February 19, and a judge has ordered her held on US$250,000 ($412,928) bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives interviewed hospital staff, who claimed they saw in surveillance footage Le Sueur entering a hospital bathroom with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3225,1117,74,7818,11924,72157,1558,14993,157076,62917,42,2241,28750,47251,296,102952,61371,15220,3302,6178,43,1118,13724,675,157075,58274,40,38,41,39,3040,1354],"class_list":["post-280341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-according","tag-accused","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-arrested","tag-babys","tag-been","tag-columbus","tag-faecal","tag-faeces","tag-headlines","tag-hospital","tag-hospitalised","tag-injecting","tag-into","tag-iv","tag-le","tag-line","tag-matter","tag-mother","tag-news","tag-of","tag-ohio","tag-police","tag-sueur","tag-tiffany","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}