Mom admits she regularly gave daughter, 12, heroin and marijuana and had the child join her shoplifting

A Minnesota woman has been charged with giving heroin to her 12-year-old daughter and having the child accompany the mother shoplifting.

Rebecca Rachelle Hill, of Maple Grove, said she gave both heroin and marijuana to her daughter because the pre-teen liked to do the same thing as her mother.

Shock: Rebecca Rachelle Hill, of Maple Grove, admitted she gave both heroin and marijuana to her daughter

The young girl smoked the drugs three times a day for up to three weeks. She was hospitalized for withdrawal and is now in therapy to try to get off the addictive substance.



Hill, 37, was arrested on October 14 and was charged on Monday with three felonies, including child endangerment, second-degree drug sale and motor vehicle theft.



The mother-daughter pair were arrested for shoplifting at the Minneapolis Mall of America on October 14.



The girl was released to her grandmother after the incident but just one day away from her mom, meant one day without drugs.

The child began suffering from drug withdrawal and according to her father she was 'feeling terrible.'

She was admitted to the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital and had both heroin and marijuana in her system, according to medical records.

The young patient informed doctors that she had smoked heroin three times a day for the past two or three weeks.

'I've been working narcotics for two years, and this was one of the worst ones I've dealt with,' Bloomington Police Detective Christopher Yates told the Star Tribune on Monday.



'I've seen cases with kids involved, but never where the mother was ever actually getting the kid high.'

According to police records, Hill told officers that her daughter 'likes to do the same things that she does and that [she] 'most likely' uses heroin because she does.'

The mom, who said she was homeless, said she continued to give the girl drugs so she wouldn't get sick from withdrawal.

Hill appeared in court on Monday and her bail was set at $75,000, or $50,000 with conditions to stay away from her daughter and stay off drugs.

Addiction: The pre-teen told police she smoked heroin three times a day for up to three weeks

Meanwhile the girl, who has not been identified, has been released from the hospital and is in a therapy program.



'All this came as a shock,' the girl's father, who attended the hearing, told reporters as he wiped away tears.

'The only thing we've heard from [Hill] is lies.'

The girl's father is seeking custody of the child.