BELLE CHASSE, LA (WVUE) -
A grand jury has indicted a Belle Chasse mother accused of killing her child by putting hand sanitizer in his feeding tube.
Erika Wigstrom, 20, now faces a first-degree murder charge for allegedly killing her 17-month-old boy, Lucas Ruiz.
Investigators said she confessed to putting sanitizer in her sick, young son's feeding tube to end his suffering in a "mercy killing."
The sanitizer raised the child's blood alcohol content to .280.