Hand holding a glass pipe packed with weed, with a lighter about to smoke it. Marijuana is now legal in several American states.
Two women in Winner, South Dakota, were arrested by authorities after it was alleged that they had forced a 10-year-old boy to smoke marijuana.
Elizabeth Mansheim and Natalie Dykstra were charged with child abuse when a home-test kit drug test proved positive of the substance taken by the child, The Mitchell Daily Republic reported on Thursday. The police did their own test and found opiates and meth in the boy.
The boy’s mother told police that her son had been in someone else’s home and claimed that Mansheim and Dykstra made him smoke the substance.
The boy told the police said that he was hyper when he got to the women’s home where he said he was given the illegal drug to calm down.
The child also told authorities where the weed was hidden in the house, but Dykstra and Mansheim hid them before police came. An officer then traced footprints in the snow and found the weed along with a plastic bag, a pipe and a grinder.
Aside from the child-abuse charge, the two were charged with possession and distribution of marijuana, which was less than 2 ounces, and being an accessory to a crime. There was no update from the local police as of this writing. Katrina Hallare /ra
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