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Leon Watson
Last updated at 7:26 PM on 1st February 2012
Babysitter Chelsea Taylor pleaded guilty to willfully ill treating the child in a manner likely to cause her unnecessary suffering or injury to health
A babysitter who wiped party drug Meow Meow on the mouth of the six-year-old girl she was looking after was today warned she could face jail.
Chelsea Taylor, 17, was supposed to be looking after the girl – but instead snorted the drug, also known as bubbles or mephedrone, with friends.
She then wiped her finger in the powder and rubbed it across the lip of the young girl she was in charge of.
Taylor later told police that she thought she had been rubbing the drug on her 19-year-old friend – but had mistaken the child for her.
Fiscal depute Gillian Sim told Dundee Sheriff Court: ‘The mother of the girl had left the child in the accused’s charge.
‘At that time the girl was six years old. A witness and two of his friends in the house as well as friends of the accused.
‘During the evening the accused and her friends were abusing the illegal drug known as bubbles – a class B drug.
‘They were removing it from the capsules, placing it in lines on a DVD case and snorting it.
‘At this time several witnesses saw the
accused put her finger in the white powder and then wipe it across the
mouth of the child.
‘It was rubbed across her top lip. A friend of the accused pointed out what she had done and the accused wiped the powder off.
‘One of the witnesses later informed their mother what they saw and the police were called.’
Popular party drug: Meow Meow, also known as bubbles or mephedrone, is sold online as plant food or bath salts, with a gram costing between £20 and £25
THE POPULAR PARTY DRUG
Mephedrone, also known as M-Cat or
meow-meow, is sold online as plant food or bath salts, with a gram
costing between £20 and £25.
The white powder barely registered in drugs surveys just three years ago, but since then its use has soared.
It
is strongly addictive and can leave users paranoid and anxious. It can
overstimulate the heart and nervous system, leading to fits or even
death.
Taylor, of The Lily Walker Centre, Dundee, pleaded guilty to willfully ill treating the child in a manner likely to cause her unnecessary suffering or injury to health between September 1 and November 22, 2010, at an address in Dundee.
Jim Laverty, defending, said: ‘Thankfully the suffering or injury to health was potential rather than actual in this case.
‘There’s no getting away from the fact that this is a serious offence.
‘It appears to be the situation that she was under the influence of this substance and appears to have believed that she was in fact performing this act on her friend and not the girl.
‘There was no adverse reaction but obviously there was potential for it.’
Sheriff John Mundy deferred sentence until later this month for a social enquiry report and an assessment of Taylor’s suitability to perform community service as an alternative to jail.
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She “could” face jail? She should be locked up for a minimum of 15 years, she could have killed a child! Disgusting that at this stage jail is only a possibility, shows the pathetic nature of our justice system.
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Even after taking this drug..it’s doubtful she mistook a six year old child for “her friend”, it is more likely she was showing off to her friends because of her altered mental state and it backfired. Though this is not me defending her, she is still a stupid, vile, and irresponsible moron.
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She was warned she COULD face jail? It shouldn’t be could, it should be will.
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If anyone did that to a child I knew, there wouldn’t be a hole or cave deep enough for them to hide in…………despicable actions, by a despicable person.
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Forget about Community Service, this evil menace should be sent down for a very long stretch – she is of no use to decent society and should be deprived of her liberty.
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How sick in the head is she!? Disgusting.
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What an idiot. Snorting plant food??? What next??
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how far was she out of it if she thought she was doing it to a friend? why was she left in charge of a child
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They all sound like total schemes!
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just how crazy are some of todays young?. I despair ……. what will the next generation be like????
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