A northeast Miami-Dade woman encounters a child neglect charge after her 6-year-old daughter tested positive for cocaine, marijuana and benzodiazepines after being taken to a local hospital.
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Miami-Dade police took 24-year-old Nyla Evans into custody on Monday. According to an arrest form, Miami-Dade police were sent to Jackson North hospital in North Miami Beach after the girl tested positive on July 9.
The document states that the victim told authorities she was home all day with “mommy.” It continues to read, “the victim stated that she ate her Lunchable and drank her juice and that made her ‘feel dizzy,’” officers wrote in the report. “She stated she told ‘mommy’ but ‘Mommy put me to sleep.’”
Police questioned Evans, who, according to the report, told police that while she does smoke marijuana, she doesn’t do it in front of her daughter. She told officers she had “no idea” how her daughter tested positive for cocaine, marijuana, and benzodiazepines.
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Evans told police that she gave her daughter her lunch around 3 p.m. and her daughter began to “act weird” approximately three hours later, the report says, walking around by dragging her feet and having slurred speech.
Evans told police she put her daughter to sleep because “she looked tired,” the report states. Then, according to the report, around 10:30 p.m., she noticed her daughter was acting strange again, put her in the bathroom and gave her milk and water because she “thought (the girl) had gotten into rat poison.”