Woman charged for stealing nephew’s medicine
A Lemont Furnace woman is facing a single charge for theft after police allege she stole medication prescribed for her nephew while baby-sitting him at his home in North Union Township.
State police Trooper Zakery Sommers said Kimberly Ann Flight, 44, of 172 Curry Hill Road was charged by Magisterial District Judge Wendy D. Dennis with the single count of theft after she allegedly stole two different prescriptions for her nephew while baby-sitting him between Aug. 18 and Aug. 29.
Sommers said the child’s mother became aware that 10 pills of her child’s prescription for Ritalin and 10 Metadate pills were missing from his pill bottles Tuesday.
Sommers said the boy’s mother told police that her sister was the only person with access to the medication as she had been baby-sitting the child for about two weeks in late August.
Sommers said he spoke with Flight on Wednesday at her home in Lemont Furnace and she admitted to stealing the medication.
She told Sommers that she took the pills while she was watching the child as she thought “they would make her feel better,” Sommers said.
Both medications are used in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Sommers said that Flight was “extremely remorseful” and told police that she had never done anything like this in the past.
Flight will face a preliminary hearing at a later date before Dennis.