iStock/Thinkstock(TACOMA, Wash.) — A woman in Washington state is accused of giving her kids heroin as “feel-good medicine.”
Ashlee Hutt, the 24-year-old mother from Parkland, Washington, faces charges of criminal mistreatment and child assault after Child Protective Services allegedly found evidence a year ago that her three young children were being injected with heroin.
Hutt was arraigned in Pierce County Superior Court on Monday with bail set at $100,000 and her boyfriend, 25-year-old Mac McIver, was arraigned in September for the same charges.
Court documents said according to the News Tribune that a 6-year-old boy, a 4-year-old girl and a 2-year-old girl were removed by CPS from the mother’s home on Nov. 15, 2015 because of the presence of heroin, needles and rat droppings in the home.
CPS said the younger girl had heroin injection marks and bruising. In an interview with the son a month later, he said he was choked by McIver and injected with “feel-good medicine” that involved mixing a white powder with water and using a needle to inject it.
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