CHILD EATS DRUGS ON CANDY

Mother Charged With Abuse After Girl Ingests LSD

West Bend - A West Bend woman has been charged with physical abuse of
a child after her 2-year-old daughter ate two LSD-laced candies the
woman allegedly purchased and brought back to their apartment.

According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Washington County
Circuit Court:

The mother, Donielle M. Maki, 23, and a friend, Valerie J. Anderson,
19, went to a house in the 500 block of Oak St. in West Bend on
Tuesday and bought 10 drug-laced candies that looked like SweeTarts
for $7 each from a man at the house.

Maki told investigators she bought the LSD for her
cousin.

After buying the drugs, Maki went home, put her 2-year-old daughter to
bed and then "passed out" on the couch in the apartment.

When she woke up Wednesday at about 9 a.m., her daughter was sitting
on the floor near her Care Bears couch and said, "I like these, Mommy"
and had one of the drug-laced candies in her hand.

Maki saw only eight pieces of candy left and knew her daughter had
eaten two of them.

Maki and her sister, identified in the complaint as Tanya R. Maki, 20,
tried to induce vomiting and then called the poison control center,
which advised them to take the girl to a hospital.

Donielle Maki told West Bend police she and her sister had conferred
"to get their stories straight" to tell police that someone had left
the drugs in the apartment.

They then took the girl to St. Joseph's Hospital in the Town of Polk.
She was later transferred to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa.

Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens said the baby is
recovering.

According to the complaint, police later searched Donielle Maki's
apartment and found the eight remaining LSD-laced candies, nearly four
ounces of marijuana, a drug pipe and three tablets of what police
believe to be Vicodin, a narcotic pain killer.

Donielle Maki is charged with four felonies - physical abuse of a
child, possession of LSD and marijuana with intent to deliver and
possession of narcotics. She's also charged with possession of drug
paraphernalia, a misdemeanor. If convicted on all counts, she could be
imprisoned up to 25 years and 7 months.

Anderson was charged with possession of LSD with intent to deliver,
for which she could be imprisoned 15 years.

Tanya Maki was charged with obstructing an officer, a
misdemeanor.

Donielle and Tanya Maki were released Thursday from the Washington
County Jail on $5,000 and $500 signature bonds, respectively.

Anderson is still in custody on a probation violation. She was
convicted in April of manufacturing and selling designer drugs and
sentenced to two years of probation.