BROOKSVILLE (FOX 13) -
A 37-year-old woman in
Hernando County has been arrested after she admitted to injecting a 16-year-old
with pain killers.
The sheriff's office
says Meghan Hughes-White, a transient, injected the drugs Dilaudid and
Methadone into the arm of the victim in May at a Days Inn on
Windmere Road in Brooksville.
Deputies had been
investigating the case for months, but just arrested Hughes-White. She's
charged with child abuse with great bodily harm.
Deputies say she
admitted to injecting the teen with the drugs. The victim told investigators
that before the injection, Hughes-White told them "you do not know what you are
missing by not injecting Dilaudid."
At last check, she had
not posted bond.
