STOCK ISLAND, Fla. – Deputies arrested a South Florida woman after they say she left THC gummies within reach of three children, who then used them as an ingredient in homemade “unicorn milkshakes” and ended up in the hospital.
Myrlande St. Fery, 34, of Stock Island, is facing three felony child neglect charges following her arrest Sunday.
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According to a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrest report, the children, aged 7, 8 and 9, reside with St. Fery, though it’s not clear if or how they’re related to her.
Deputies said they responded to Lower Keys Medical Center just after 4:45 p.m. after receiving a report that the three children had ingested narcotics.
Hospital staff showed deputies two containers of “Giggle Gummies” and “Lullaby Night Berry 40 Sleep Gummies,” both labeled with “THC,” that the children had gotten hold of, the report states.
According to the report, St. Fery told deputies, with her older daughter translating, that she had found the gummies at the hotel where she works, brought them home and placed them at the top of a bunk bed in the room the family sleeps in.
On Friday, the report states one of the children tried to grab the gummies off the top bunk, but St. Fery told them “no,” as they “make people sleepy.”
Deputies said the children managed to get hold of them on Sunday and made the “unicorn milkshakes” with vanilla ice cream, rainbow sprinkles and the gummies.
One of the children told deputies that he spit out the first milkshake because he “did not like the way it tasted,” but two hours later, the children added more gummies to the mix and found the milkshakes palatable, the report states.
The children started feeling “sick and weird” and informed their mother. One of the children had a “droopy” eye and was feeling tired, deputies said.
The children’s mother, who was interviewed separately, called for an ambulance after one of the children “began to medically decline,” deputies said.
Ultimately, the children didn’t suffer any life-threatening medical conditions, deputies said.
St. Fery was being held without bond in MCSO’s Key West jail facility as of Monday morning, according to online records.