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Authorities have placed a 2-week-old baby into protective custody after it was determined that the infant had ingested laundry detergent. The mother claims that somehow the baby’s formula was tampered with, but cops are doubting it.

”We’re concerned because the mom’s story and the family’s story are not consistent,” said CPS spokeswoman Gwen Carter. “We felt it was in the best interest of the child.”

The baby was released from the hospital over the weekend and is doing well, Carter said.

The child’s mother has five other children who have been placed with a relative. A Montgomery County judge signed the removal orders for the baby and his siblings on Tuesday, Carter said.

The 32-year-old mother, who asked that her name not be published, said Tuesday that when she mixed the formula, she noticed it was white and thin and not thick and pale yellow like most powder formulas. She said she didn’t think much about it because it was a soy formula.

She said she was cleaning out the bathtub when her 14-year-old son came in the bathroom and told her the baby was spitting out his food and that the formula smelled like bleach.