Charges: Mom admits she regularly gave daughter, 12, heroin
- Article by: ABBY SIMONS , Star Tribune
- Updated: October 22, 2012 - 3:15 PM
Charges say Rebecca Rachelle Hill, 37, justified it by telling police that the girl likes to do the same things she does.
Hill, 37, is charged with felony child endangerment, second-degree drug sale and motor vehicle theft, along with giving a false name to police, a misdemeanor. The girl was with Hill on Oct. 14 when Hill was arrested for shoplifting at the Mall of America.
According to the charges filed in Hennepin County District Court, Hill and her daughter were caught stealing clothing at Macy's. Hill initially gave police a false name and said she was from California. When police confirmed that the name she gave did not exist, mother and daughter "began crying loudly and clinging to each other." Hill was later positively identified and the girl was released to her grandmother.
The next day, the girl's father called police and said his daughter told him that her mother had been supplying her with heroin and marijuana, and that the girl was "feeling terrible" and appeared to be in withdrawal. The girl was taken to the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital, where she remained as of late last week. Medical records showed she had both the drugs in her system, and that she told doctors that for the past two or three weeks, her mother had given her heroin to smoke three times a day. They last used the drug Oct. 13, she said. She added that the two were homeless, staying "here and there" and occasionally sleeping in their stolen vehicle. The girl added that she was anxious, depressed and had been cutting herself.
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