Charges: Mom regularly gave daughter, 12, heroin

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A woman is accused of regularly giving her 12-year-old daughter heroin that led to the girl being hospitalized for withdrawal in Minneapolis.

Thirty-seven-year-old Rebecca Rachelle Hill allegedly admitted to smoking the drug with her daughter three times a day.

Charges say Hill justified it by telling police that the girl likes to do the same things she does.

The Star Tribune reports Hill is charged with felony child endangerment, second-degree drug sale and motor vehicle theft, along with giving a false name to police, a misdemeanor. The girl was with Hill on Oct. 14 when Hill was arrested for allegedly shoplifting at the Mall of America.

Hill was in the Hennepin County Jail, with bail set at $125,000. Her public defender did not immediately return a call Monday.

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