Mom accused of putting feces in son's IV wants trial

A woman accused of injecting her 9-year-old son's hospital IV with feces has turned down a plea deal and wants a jury trial.

Candida Fluty, 35, appeared Wednesday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court for a scheduled plea hearing.

But Fluty's attorney, Elizabeth Agar, told Judge Jerome Metz Jr. that her client wanted to proceed to a jury trial.

No specific trial date was set, although Metz said it would begin sometime in August.

Assistant Prosecutor Anne Flanagan told Metz that an investigation is continuing into the hospitalization of Fluty's son and that more charges are possible.

Authorities are trying to determine, Flanagan said, if "there were other instances that are potentially suitable for indictment."

When approached by reporters outside the courtroom, Agar and Fluty quickly walked away without comment.

Fluty, of West Virginia, was indicted in January on two counts of felonious assault and two counts of child endangering. She faces up to eight years in prison.

Authorities said she deliberately made her son sick by contaminating his IV at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

The boy has a congenital condition affecting the bowels that has required numerous surgeries, prosecutors said. He previously received treatment in West Virginia and began receiving treatment in Cincinnati in 2011.

Fluty did not show up April 16 for a scheduled plea hearing and a warrant was issued for her arrest. She did, however, appear the next day.