A Texas mom has been arrested after a drink she made for her son’s bully despatched him to the hospital, in accordance with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Jennifer Lynn Rossi, 45, reportedly blended lemon juice, vinegar, salt and Gatorade collectively in a sports activities bottle on Tuesday and advised her son to offer it to a classmate who had stolen his drink the day earlier than at Legacy Conventional Faculty – Alamo Ranch, roughly 20 miles northwest of downtown San Antonio, Texas, in accordance with an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by ABC Information’ San Antonio affiliate KSAT.
“Upon arriving to the varsity, deputies realized that the sick baby was given a drink by a classmate throughout P.E. class,” Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace stated of their assertion relating to the incident.
Shortly after the kid consumed the drink, he reportedly started experiencing nausea and a headache and was taken to a hospital, sheriff officers say.
“Though, the contents of the drink had been non-toxic, the incident resulted in a baby being hospitalized,” Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace stated of their assertion. “Hospital employees knowledgeable the investigator that the kid sufferer required further medical monitoring and would ultimately be discharged from the hospital.”
Via the course of the investigation, it was realized that the mom of the scholar who supplied the drink “deliberately blended the contents of the drink to allegedly forestall her son’s drink from being stolen in school by different college students,” officers stated.
Rossi was arrested and booked into jail the place she was charged with harm to a baby inflicting bodily harm.
The investigation into the incident is presently ongoing.
ABC Information’ Marilyn Heck contributed to this report.