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3-year-old Utah girl ingests drink laced with meth, allegedly meant for her mother, aunt and uncle

A Grantsville 3-year-old was taken to the hospital last month after ingesting a drink laced with methamphetamine, mixed for her mother, aunt and uncle, court documents say.

The mixture was apparently intended for the adults, who told police they frequently mix such drinks.

The girl’s grandmother, who is her legal guardian, took the child to the hospital about 6 p.m. Dec. 30. The grandmother told police she’d noticed the child acting strangely, and when she questioned the child’s mother and uncle, they said she had “started acting weird after she drank from a water bottle with soda in it,” according to documents.

Based on interviews with the mother, uncle and aunt — all of whom are siblings — police believe that the aunt had supplied the mother with meth, and the mother showed up at the grandmother’s house with the drink a short time later.

After a few minutes, the mother “started freaking out” because she could not find the bottle, the aunt told police.

After the child had consumed part of the drink, her uncle took the bottle into the bathroom, where he finished what was left, the aunt said.

Before the incident, the aunt said, she had mixed a different meth-laced drink for her sister (the child’s mother), who drank it all. All three of the adult siblings tested positive for the drug, court documents say.

The aunt also said the mother had asked the uncle to put a small baggie of meth in his pants pocket so he would take the fall for the child ingesting the drug.

Police noted that in interviews, each of the adult siblings “tried to deceive” police and blame the incident on each other.

The mother, aunt and uncle were booked into the Tooele County jail Dec. 30 on a $10,000 bond. They have each been charged in 3rd District Court with one count of endangerment of a child, a second-degree felony, possession or use of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor, and possession of drug paraphernalia, a class B misdemeanor.

They are due in court for a scheduling conference Jan. 23.