By Roberto Bustamante
A mother is charged after the alleged discovery of cocaine in the systems of her two daughters, who drowned in western Harris County, Texas.
The sisters Kelsey Kite2 years old, and Kinsley Kite3, drowned in the backyard pool of their home on February 11. They lived on the property with their mother and grandparents.
On Monday, May 11, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez revealed in a post on X that the mother, Laura Nicholson23, had been charged with two counts of injury to minors for her alleged involvement in the deaths of her daughters.
“Our investigation determined that both girls had cocaine in their system at the time of their death,” Gonzalez wrote in his statement.
The sheriff added that on Sunday, May 11, “our Violent Criminal Apprehension Team (VCAT) coordinated with the Caribbean Regional Fugitive Apprehension Task Force, who arrested Nicholson in Florida and booked her into the Lee County Jail.”
According to court records obtained by ABC13, the medical examiner ruled that the girls’ cause of death was “drowning and acute cocaine intoxication”.
In addition to cocaine, the girls had benzoylecgonine in their blood. Autopsies could not confirm or rule out drowning due to difficulty determining the cause, Fox 26 Houston reported.
The girls’ grandmother found them in the pool when she arrived home shortly after 11:00 a.m. The sheriff’s office said at the time that initial investigations suggested the girls had escaped to the backyard while their mother and grandfather were sleeping and their grandmother was at the grocery store.
Nicholson told authorities that he woke up to hear his mother screaming after finding the girls in the pool.
Nicholson’s mother also accused her daughter of using cocaineaccording to ABC13, citing court records.
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