TIFTON — A 13-year-old girl was charged Wednesday with two counts of aggravated assault after her father and stepmother alleged she put Fungi Care in Kool-Aid Sunday in an attempt to go live with her mother.
According to the Tifton Police Dept.’s incident report, the girl’s father told an officer that when he and his wife returned from church on Sunday afternoon, they sat down to eat dinner. The man said he pulled a pitcher of Kool-Aid he had made the night before out of the refrigerator and poured a cup for him and a cup for his wife.
The man reported that he took one sip and noticed that the drink tasted “funny.” His wife reportedly took one sip of the Kool-Aid and ask her husband if he tasted something wrong with the drink. According to the report, the man told his wife that he believed it might be the ice that was causing the drink to taste odd.
According to the report, the man made a new pitcher of Kool Aid and placed the other two cups aside. The man told the officer that it was at that time that his mouth started burning severely and he began to sweat. The man told the officer he knew something was wrong and that he began smelling chemicals that could have been in the Kool-Aid.
At that time, the man told the officer, he opened a bottle of liquid Fungi Care, used to treat fungus of the hands and feet, that was in the medicine cabinet and told his wife that it smelled like what was in the Kool-Aid. The man told the officer that he stepped outside to smoke and that when he returned to the bathroom 15 minutes later, he noticed the medicine was gone.
The man told the officer that after several minutes of questioning the girl, she pulled the fungus medicine bottle from inside a flower basket where she had hid it. The officer wrote that when he arrived on the scene, the girl admitted that she had poured the medication into the man’s and the woman’s Kool-Aid so she could be with her mother.
The girl was placed under arrest and transported to the Tifton Police Dept. where an officer with the Department of Juvenile Justice was notified and further questioned the girl. She was then transported to the Tift County Law Enforcement Center and turned over to authorities with the Crisp County Youth Detention Center.
To contact senior reporter Angie Thompson, call 382-4321.
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