A Texas mother has been arrested for serving spiked Jello shots to 15 children at a 5th-grade Christmas party, causing one of them to pass out.
Teresa Isabel Bernal, 33, was arrested on Monday, but claims she bought the boozy treats on Facebook Marketplace and did not know they contained alcohol.
Bernal claimed that the shots “do taste different,” but she brought them to the party anyway and did not realize they contained booze until after all the kids consumed them.
According to a report from the New York Post, almost all of the students reported “‘having stomach aches and headaches,’ the affidavit said. One kid couldn’t stay on his feet, another vomited, and a third ‘passed out.’”
“However, some of her daughter’s teachers could taste the alcohol, and they sent all of the kids who had eaten them to the nurses office, the officials said. Only four kids stayed behind,” the report explained.
The investigator’s affidavit states, “During the interviews I was told, while some of the teachers found it odd that Bernal would bring Jell-O shots to an elementary school party, they were trusting Bernal not to bring anything harmful to the school party. Bernal was an involved parent and was present at many functions at the school.”
The investigator did not believe the alcohol was served by accident.
“In my opinion, there is no way Bernal could have missed the fact that the Jell-O shots she purchased … and brought to her daughter’s 5th grade Christmas party contained drinking alcohol,” the investigator wrote.
The Facebook post she purchased them from makes it clear that they contained alcohol.
Bernal was released on Monday on a $75,000 bond.
The mom is now banned from the school.
