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Report: Cocaine, Pot Found In Toddler's System
 
Friday, May 09, 2008 - 02:10 PM Updated: 03:23 PM
 
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Dailey, 16, admitted to holding a child while her boyfriend allegedly forced it to smoke marijuana. "I wasn't thinking at all," she said.
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By Ashley Brown

NEWARK, Ohio -- A Newark teenager who was charged for giving a toddler marijuana is pleading guilty to most of the charges against her.

The video was seen around the world: A toddler was given a pipe to smoke marijuana.

Though well-watched, the videotape still was hard to watch.

It showed 16-year-old Angel Dailey and 18-year-old Melvin Blevins allegedly giving a toddler a marijuana pipe. Dailey pleaded guilty to the crime Friday, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported.

The video of the toddler was found at a pawn shop. NBC 4 learned in court Friday that the 2-year-old little girl had not only marijuana in her system but cocaine, too.

Angel Dailey refused to watch the video Friday. It showed her holding the toddler while a man whom she said was her boyfriend allegedly gave the child marijuana.

Dailey admitted to two of the three crimes against her — crimes that could keep her in juvenile detention until she's 21.

She was charged with child endangerment and corrupting another with drugs. She admitted that she did hold the child and said her boyfriend gave the child marijuana — in fact tried to teach the child to smoke from a pipe, Bowersock reported. She also admitted to having smoked a half of an ounce of pot herself.

"I wasn’t' thinking at all, sir," Dailey said.

She said little in court Friday and gave no reason for the alleged crimes, Bowersock reported.  She spoke softly of her role that night last year in a Pataskala home.

"No, I didn't hold the child down, but I was holding the child," Dailey said.

"That was family. She shouldn't have done that to family," Amber Pruitt, the child's mother, said.

Dailey said the child's uncle is the man in the video allegedly trying to get the toddler to smoke marijuana.

Pruitt told Bowersock she remembered the first time she saw the video of her daughter smoking marijuana from a pipe.

"I almost got sick. I started crying," Pruitt said. "I was in my living room. I had no idea about any of it. She was with her father for a few months because my mother had passed away … I really thought she'd be safe in the care of her father and her grandmother. I didn't even know she was left with her uncle."

Blevins, the boyfriend, was charged in federal court with even more crimes, including drug and gun possession.

The judge in the case was waiting for mental tests to be done on Dailey before sentencing her. Stay tuned to NBC 4 and refresh nbc4i.com for more information on this developing story.

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