Florida babysitter puts marijuana in baby’s mouth – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

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LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida teenager was arrested on a felony child abuse charge Friday after she allegedly recorded herself putting a marijuana cigarette in a child’s mouth, according to deputies.

The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said the teenager, of Largo, was babysitting a 1 year-old belonging to a 16 year-old friend of hers.

Deputies said when they responded to a report of child abuse at the teen’s home in unincorporated Largo, the 17 year-old admitted to smoking marijuana around the child but denied giving the child the cigarette.

However, according to the sheriff’s office, detectives were able to find a video that the babysitter recorded showing her putting the cigarette in the 1 year-old’s mouth.

“The victim then inhales while the lit marijuana cigarette is in their mouth, and the embers begin to glow brighter,” a release from the sheriff’s office states. “[The teen] then takes the marijuana cigarette out of the mouth of the one-year-old victim and places it into her own mouth, and inhales, causing the embers to glow brighter.”