The former Ridgefield woman accused of trying to poison one ex and prevent another from proving paternity can have supervised virtual contact with her two older children. A judge agreed to that when Kristen Hogan appeared in Danbury Superior Court for a brief hearing Friday.

Since Hogan’s first arrest in the fall, there have been protective orders in place keeping Hogan from her three children. Her lawyers filed a motion asking the orders be modified so Hogan can see all her kids. Attorney Lisa Kouzoujian, the guardian ad litem appointed to represent the children, recommended supervised virtual contact with just the two oldest at the discretion of Kouzoujian.

“I believe that this modification, as defined as it is, is in the best interest of the children at this time,” Kouzoujian told the judge, explaining that she came to it after speaking with all parties and reading court documents.

“Certainly, my client will take whatever kind of contact she can get, but it's with maintaining the position that she would like that contact to be as much as possible and understanding that obviously we can revisit this at a later time,” Ryan O’Neill, who represents Hogan, told the judge.

Assistant State’s Attorney Mary-Caitlin Harding said she had no objection to Kouzoujian’s recommendation, which was granted by Judge Thomas Saadi.

State police initially arrested Hogan in October on attempted murder and interfering charges involving her youngest son's father, with whom she's in the midst of a custody battle. Hogan is accused of secretly pouring ethylene glycol, the chemical found in antifreeze, into an open bottle of wine at the man’s house in Ridgefield, causing him to be hospitalized. Hogan was released on a $1 million bond but with the conditions of GPS monitoring and home confinement at her grandparents' house in Massachusetts.

According to the arrest warrant, the poisoning occurred on Aug 7. Police believe it happened while the man was at the courthouse for a family court hearing that Hogan had requested but never came to.

Court records obtained by News 12 show Hogan had filed an application for relief from abuse, alleging, “controlling, threatening, and verbally abusive behavior,” and claiming, “I live in constant fear of what he may do next.” The judge dropped the matter when Hogan didn’t appear for the hearing.

Hogan’s ex told police that a few days later, on Aug. 10, he drank a small amount of wine that was in the refrigerator before bed, then woke up several times increasingly ill, according to the warrant. When his mom arrived to bring him to the hospital, she found him, "slurring his words, staggering and vomiting," the warrant said. Doctors initially thought he was having a stroke, then determined it was signs ethylene glycol poisoning, which led to him being admitted to the ICU and put on dialysis, according to the warrant.

When police went through Hogan’s phone, they found searches for various lethal poisons and how much would kill a person, the warrant said. Hogan had also searched "penalty for not appearing for court hearing on your own motion," the warrant said.

Hogan initially denied she put the toxic chemical in the wine, claiming she was in Rhode Island at the time, but location data from her phone put in the vicinity of the house on Aug. 7, according to the warrant. Hogan then confessed, saying “she never intended to kill him but just wanted to make him sick as payback for being mentally abusive,” the warrant said. Hogan also admitted to pouring a small amount of monoethylene glycol into an iced tea bottle at the victim’s house at a different date, per the warrant. The victim gave police a motive for Hogan’s alleged actions, saying if he died, she would get full custody of their child and full ownership of the house, the warrant said. Court records show that house, which they bought together, is the focus of an ongoing property case between them.

In December, Hogan turned herself in to police on a new arrest warrant for evidence tampering and three counts of perjury. The charges relate to a separate years-long legal fight in probate court with a man claiming to be the biological father of Hogan’s two oldest children. According to that warrant, Hogan is accused of providing false information in the paternity proceedings and sabotaging his efforts to prove paternity, including bringing her nephew rather than her own son to court-ordered DNA testing. Hogan posted a $50,000 bond in that case.

On Friday, the state said there is extensive discovery in these two cases, and while much has been turned over to the defense, there is still more. Hogan returns to court April 16.

Ridgefield woman accused of slipping antifreeze chemical into ex's wine posts bond