Mother charged with giving heroin to her three small children as a 'feel-good medicine'

A mother has been charged with giving heroin to her three small children.

Ashlee Hutt, 24, is accused of injecting her children, aged two, four and six, with the drug.

She was charged with three counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance to a minor at Pierce County Superior Court in Washington state on Monday.

It is alleged the children were given the drug and told it was “feel-good medicine”, The News Tribune reported.

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Hutt’s boyfriend, Mac McIver, 25, faces the same charges. He is currently in Pierce County Jail.

Each are being held on $100,000 bail.

According to court documents, investigators from Child Protective Services removed a six-year-old boy, a four-year-old girl and a two-year-old girl from the couple’s home in November 2015 because there was heroin in the house.

They also found needles and rat droppings.

Child protection staff noticed marks, bruises and cuts on the two-year-old girl’s body that suggested she had been injected with heroin.

When interviewed a month later, the six-year-old boy said he had been choked by McIver and injected with “feel-good medicine”.

He also said the couple mixed white powder with water and injected it into him and his sisters with a needle, court documents said.

The boy said the children usually went to sleep afterwards.

Court documents said the two-year-old girl tested positive for heroin through a hair follicle examination.

Hutt and McIver admitted to being heroin addicts in interviews with Child Protective Services, the court documents said.

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