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   Mom accused of putting feces in son's IV line wants trial   
      
   Kevin Grasha, The Cincinnati Enquirer   
   Apr 29, 2015   
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   Patrick Reddy, The Cincinnati Enquirer   
   Candida Fluty, 35, of Kermit, W.Va., was in Hamilton County (Ohio) Common   
   Pleas Court on April 29, 2015, in Cincinnati with her lawyer, Elizabeth Agar.   
   CINCINNATI -- A woman accused of injecting her 9-year-old son's    
   ntravenous-fluid line with feces turned down a plea deal Wednesday and wants a   
   jury trial, her lawyer said.   
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   Candida Fluty, 35, of Kermit, W.Va., was indicted in January on two counts of   
   felonious assault and two counts of child endangerment. Her son, referred to   
   in court documents as "E.F." because he potentially is the victim of a crime,   
   was born with a bowel    
   condition called Hirschsprung's disease, which causes problems with passing   
   stool.   
   The boy has had numerous surgeries and uses a colostomy bag, according to the   
   Hamilton County prosecutor's office. He had been receiving treatment in West   
   Virginia but began coming to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in   
   2011.   
   When he was admitted in January to Children's Hospital, prosecutors said his   
   mother was caught on surveillance video filling a syringe with fecal matter   
   from a colostomy bag and injecting it into his IV line, causing him to spike a   
   fever.   
      
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   "Although rare, we have seen similar cases with similar motivations," Hamilton   
   County Prosecutor Joseph Deters said at the time of the indictment. "I'm just   
   grateful that it was caught before we were confronted with a murder case."   
   Deters told People magazine that he didn't believe Fluty wanted to kill her   
   child, just make him sick so the single mother could receive attention. The   
   condition is called Munchausen syndrome by proxy though the syndrome is not   
   mentioned in the    
   indictment and Deters said that Fluty's son was born with his bowel disease.   
   Friends had multiple fundraisers to offset the family's medical bills.   
      
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   Experts: social media feeds into Munchausen by proxy   
      
   On Dec. 22, the Cincinnati Bengals honored Fluty's son at a Monday Night   
   Football game, the first time the boy had seen a game in person, according to   
   a Facebook post from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.   
   On Wednesday, Assistant Prosecutor Anne Flanagan told Judge Jerome Metz Jr. of   
   Hamilton County Common Pleas Court that an investigation is continuing into   
   the child's hospitalization and that more charges are possible. She did not   
   mention the terms of    
   the plea deal that Fluty had rejected.   
   Authorities are trying to determine if "there were other instances that are   
   potentially suitable for indictment," Flanagan said. Earlier this month,   
   Fluty, who earlier had posted $50,000 bond, did not appear for a court date   
   but a warrant for her arrest    
   was withdrawn when she showed up a day later.   
   Her child is now in the custody of the West Virginia Bureau for Children and   
   Families and is living with an aunt, prosecutors said.   
   If convicted on the present charges, Fluty faces up to eight years in prison.   
   Although Metz did not set a specific date, he said Fluty's trial would begin   
   in August.   
   When reporters approached Fluty for comment Wednesday outside the courtroom,   
   she and her lawyer, Elizabeth Agar, quickly walked away.   
      
      
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