FIRST he spiked his two toddler's beef noodle soup with hot pepper.
Two weeks later, he added lighter fluid to their sausage noodle soup.
Two weeks after that, it was anti-depressant drugs to chicken noodle soup.
Each time, little Billy, 3, and Miranda, 18 months, had to be taken to hospital.
And each time, their father called the Campbell Soup company and demanded millions in compensation.
On the third occasion, Miranda had to be airlifted to a larger hospital for weeks of emergency treatment.
While she was warded, company officials were trying to determine how one family could be poisoned by eating three products tainted by different substances at three different times. When tests on the empty cans found no traces of poison, they called the police.
On Tuesday, rubbish truck driver William Allen Cunningham, 41, pleaded guilty in an Atlanta, US, court to poisoning his children in an attempt to extort money, reported AFP.
He faces a maximum jail term of five years when he is sentenced in April.
Cunningham told the court that he had hatched the scheme in a bid to make money and save his marriage.
'I was having marital problems. I didn't want to take a chance of breaking up,' he told the court.
'I wasn't necessarily trying to hurt my kids. I didn't think it would get that bad... I guess I was out of my mind.'
The couple have since divorced.
Cunningham's ex-wife, Rhonda, was in court as he spoke. She could barely contain her fury, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
STILL SUFFERING
Invited to address the court on behalf of the children, their maternal grandmother, Mrs Jan Dockery, said: 'The baby is still suffering. She spent three days on life support and now has asthma. He should not be able to get around those kids again.'
Outside the court, she told the Clayton News Daily: 'He did it for the dollar, the almighty dollar, because he's too lazy to work.'
Cunningham's aunt, Mrs Linda Willis, told reporters that while the poisoning had left Miranda suffering physically, Bill was struggling emotionally.
'It has really messed him up,' she said. 'He asks a lot of questions we can't answer. And he won't eat soup. He says to his mum, 'Don't give the baby soup'.'
District Attorney David Nahmias branded the case 'truly abominable'.
'It is tragic that a parent would intentionally harm his children in an attempt to reap financial gain,' he said. 'This is just beyond the pale.'
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this parent is crazy!
He poisons his kids' soup to get payout 
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