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CINCINNATI, May 27 (UPI) -- A judge told a Cincinnati mother convicted of giving her children and their friends wine coolers and marijuana she was a "sorry excuse for a parent."
Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Steve Martin sentenced Melony Wikette to one year in prison after she was convicted of endangering children, corrupting with drugs and abusing harmful intoxicants.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Thursday that additional drug charges were dismissed when Wikette pleaded guilty April 29.
"You took your kids along on drug deals. You knew what you were doing," Martin said. "You held a position of trust with the kids, and you breached that trust."
Wikette and her boyfriend were accused of giving her 12-year-old twins and five other sixth-graders nitrous oxide, marijuana and alcohol last January and February. Prosecutors said the couple told the children the nitrous oxide was harmless helium and if inhaled would make their voices sound funny.
When blended with oxygen, nitrous oxide is used legally as laughing gas.
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