[video] Mother gives Ecstasy to child

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In the disturbing video, a girl roughly 2 years old sits huddled on the floor in the back seat of a minivan. Her eyes roll back in her head as the young women in the car tease, laugh and poke at her. (ABC)

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3363032&page=1

By DAVID SCHOETZ
July 10, 2007
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Texas authorities have interviewed the occupants of a minivan who appear in an online video that shows a toddler who might have been given ecstasy, as authorities try to determine whether the child actually ingested the powerful street drug.

"They don't have enough information to say with any certainty whether or not she was exposed to any drugs," Lt. John Martin, a spokesman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office, told ABC News.


"Their story is basically that they told the little girl to act that way and they were basically filming her doing what they said," Martin said.

Investigators, under the leadership of the FBI's Houston field office, have also interacted with the toddler, Martin said.

In the disturbing video, a girl roughly 2 years old sits huddled on the floor in the back seat of a minivan, her eyes rolling back in her head as the young women in the car tease, laugh and poke at her. At times, she looks unresponsive to a teen playing with her face and sticking iPod speakers in her ears.

At least four females, who appear to be in their teens or early 20s, are captured on tape laughing at the little girl as she sits stone-faced throughout most of the 2½ minute clip. Another child, also not wearing a seat belt, can be seen in the back seat of the vehicle.

"She's taking that hit like a soldier," a female voice says. "She's rolling, girl, she's rolling."

"Rolling" is a term commonly used to describe the effects of Ecstasy, a potentially lethal street drug that is often associated with the club scene.

MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, acts as both a stimulant and a psychedelic, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

In total, there were nine people in the minivan, including three adults, the toddler, an infant and four teenage girls under 17, Martin said. One of the adults, he said, was the 21-year-old mother of the toddler featured in the video.

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is involved and will now work to ensure the child's proper care. Authorities, meanwhile, will continue to probe any illegal activity -- including the possibility that the toddler was drugged.

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