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TWIN FALLS — A Gooding mother is facing a criminal charge and fighting to regain custody of her two children after she said she gave her daughter butter infused with marijuana to treat the girl’s seizure-like symptoms.

Kelsey Osborne, 23, was arraigned last week in Twin Falls County Magistrate Court on a misdemeanor count of injury to child. Osborne said the Department of Health and Welfare has also taken her children and placed them with her ex-husband in Jerome, leaving her with only supervised visitation rights.

“They’ve already taken my life — they’ve taken my kids — so at this point, I really don’t have anything else to lose,” Osborne told the Times-News Monday on why she’s speaking out despite the pending criminal charge.

Osborne said her daughter Madyson has been acting out since she was 18 months old, but was having a particularly bad night Oct. 4 after several weeks of going on and off Risperidone, an antipsychotic medication.

The next morning, Madyson was having seizure-like symptoms, vomiting and acting out in a way she never had, so Osborne made her a smoothie with marijuana butter that calmed the girl, Osborne said. But at a doctor’s appointment later that day, the girl tested positive for marijuana and the doctor called the Department of Health and Welfare.