GA. Man Gets 100 Yrs.: Poisoned Kids with Soup

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JONESBORO, Ga. – A Georgia man is sentenced to 100 years in prison for poisoning his children to extort money from Campbell's Soup Co.

William Cunningham was sentenced Thursday after a jury found him guilty on seven counts of aggravated assault for forcing the children in 2006 to eat soup laced with prescription drugs and lighter fluid.

His 3-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter were hospitalized twice. A family member said the youngsters may suffer lifelong respiratory problems from lung damage caused by the lighter fluid.

Cunningham's wife has since divorced him.

Cunningham pleaded guilty in 2007 to a federal charge of making false claims against Campbell's Soup by threatening to sue them over the contaminated soup.

Ga. father gets 100 years for poisoning kids' soup - Yahoo! News

 

[Dixie]

OMG - this man is absolutely greedy! I could never imagine doing such a thing to my child just so I could win a suit against a company. Either way when they test the batch and only the cans he bought were bad, it would show up anyway.

This is also incredibly stupid.

 

[Bottesini]

That's really sad, and he didn't have the courage to do it to himself and used the children.

 

[Lissa]