Hell hath no fury like a child without his or her smartphone, or so it seems. According to reports, a 12-year-old from Boulder, Colorado was arrested on Friday following accusations that she attempted to poison her mother for taking away the girl's iPhone.

The girl had allegedly attempted to poison her mother with bleach on two separate occasions. The first time, on March 2, resulted in a hospital trip after the girl allegedly poured bleach into the mom's breakfast smoothie. Though the mother had smelled bleach when she went to drink her morning drink, she had simply assumed that her child had washed the cup and failed to clean it properly.

After drinking said horrible smoothie, the mother took a short trip to the hospital, where she was treated and released sans issue. However, the 12-year-old attempted the same trick again later that weekthis time, pouring bleach into a water carafe that her mother kept in her bedroom. Her mother, likely smelling the bleach again, was a bit suspicious at that point. She confronted her child, and that's when she learned that the kid had allegedly been attempting to poison her because the mother had previously taken away said child's smartphone.

These kinds of things tend to go beyond warranting a trip to time out, or a further reduction in privileges. As you might expect, the mother contacted police, told them the deal, and investigators ultimately took the girl into custody. Charges haven't been filed just yet, though the 12-year-old is currently being held in a juvenile detention facility.

Police also haven't named the mother or the daughter just yet, nor have they coughed up any additional details about the incidents beyond what they've stated in their press release. Our advice? When you punish your kid, and something smells fishy in something you're about to drink, it's probably best to pour yourself a new glassone never knows.

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