Bowling Green mother pleads guilty after 1-year-old overdoses on THC gummies
Bowling Green police arrested 31-year-old Walstechia Jenkins after a 1-year-old girl in her care became unresponsive from eating THC gummies at her Angora Court apartment on 8 May 2026. She was charged with criminal abuse and wanton endangerment, then pleaded guilty, received pretrial diversion and was released.
🇺🇸 apartment on Angora Court, Bowling Green, Kentucky · Kentucky, United States
Bowling Green police arrested 31-year-old Walstechia Jenkins after a 1-year-old
girl in her care became unresponsive after reportedly eating edibleTHC gummies.[1]Jenkins was arrested on 8 May 2026 on two counts of first-degree wanton
endangerment and one count of second-degree criminal abuse.[1]She was taken
to the Warren County Regional Jail after the arrest.[2]Jenkins later appeared
in Warren District Court, waived her preliminary hearing and entered Kentucky’s
rocket-docket programme.[1]She pleaded guilty in Warren Circuit Court, was
placed on pretrial diversion and was released from jail.[1]
Police were called on 8 May 2026 to Jenkins’s apartment on Angora Court.[1]At
the door, an officer met a paramedic who was carrying the unresponsive
1-year-old girl.[1]Police found Jenkins in her bedroom appearing to be under
the influence.[1]Jenkins told police the gummies had been on a table beside
her bed and the child must have eaten them while she briefly left the room.[1]One gummy package was labelled as containing D8, D9 and THC with 2,000
milligrams.[2]Officers seized two THC edible packages, a brown paper bag and
a shooter bottle of vodka from the home.[1]Two other children were in the
home at the time and could also have accessed the gummies.[2]
The baby was transported to The Medical Center and treated.[1]Kentucky’s
rocket-docket programme expedites certain low-level drug-related cases toward
treatment and reduces the cost of housing jail inmates.[1]
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The guilty plea is dated 18 May 2026 because the second report was published that Monday and says she pleaded guilty Monday, with no separate plea time stated.
The first report was published 11 May 2026 and places the police response on Friday, consistent with the 8 May arrest date given in the second report.
The 2,000-milligram figure is a label claim for one package's D8, D9 and THC content, not a weighed seizure total for the two packages seized, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
The child's condition beyond transport to hospital and treatment was not reported, including how much was eaten.
No completion outcome for the pretrial diversion and no separate charges for the vodka or paper bag were reported.
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