Father Poisoned Kids’ Soup In Campbell’s Extortion
Posted on Friday, 22 of May , 2009 at 8:49 am
ATLANTA, GA—A man who officials say was motivated by a scheme to extort money from Campbell’s Soup Company has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for feeding poisoned soup to his two small children.
William Cunningham, 40, of Stockbridge, Ga., was allegedly planning to file a claim with the soup company, claiming that the soup made his children sick.
A federal grand jury indicted him in June 2006 on charges of tampering with consumer products with reckless disregard for the risk that another person would be placed in danger or death or serious bodily injury.
On Thursday, a jury found him guilty of seven counts of aggravated assault.
Investigators say that Cunningham fed his 3-year-old son and 18-month old daughter soup poisoned with the prescription drugs used to treat depression, Prozac and Amitriptyline, on three occasions in January 2006. Each time the children were taken to the emergency room and on one occasion, his daughter had to be airlifted by helicopter to an Atlanta hospital.
In 2007, Cunningham pleaded guilty to making false claims against Campbell’s for threatening to sue them over the allegedly contaminated soup.
The children are now in the custody of their mother. She has divorced him. 5-22-09
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