Ohio Mother Jessica Gamble Indicted on Charges of Teaching Daughter to Smoke Pot

(Sept. 16) -- A Cincinnati-area woman has been indicted on charges related to teaching her 2-year-old daughter to smoke marijuana.

And a video on her cell phone provided the evidence against her, according to Hamilton County, Ohio, officials.

On the video, which was provided by the county prosecutor's office, the little girl takes several puffs of a joint. Once she waves her hand trying to disperse the smoke around her face. A woman's voice can be heard in the background, apparently coaching her: "Don't blow on it."

"What's quite disconcerting is she is handling this like she's done this before," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters told the Cincinnati Enquirer about the child.

The newspaper reported that the mother, 21-year-old Jessica Gamble, remains in the county jail after being arrested earlier this week. She was charged with child endangering, which could lead to a sentence of up to five years, and two other counts.

The incident occurred earlier this summer, according to media reports, but a video from the mother's phone was given to the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services, according to a news release from the county prosecutor's office.

"It's unbelievable to watch on video a mother teaching her 2-year-old how to smoke a joint," Deters told the Enquirer. "There are some people who should never have children."

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The prosecutor's office said the child has been placed in the care of a relative.

This is the second recent incident in which a mother was allegedly caught in a video letting her child use marijuana.

A couple in Connecticut was arrested in February after police said they found a video of the mother's 3-year-old apparently attempting to smoke pot.

Kristen Augeri, 23, and her boyfriend, Thomas Way, 22, were charged with risk of injury to a child and drug-dealing charges, among other counts. Augeri later charged that police seized the video illegally.