Cops: Mom Spiked Applesauce With Prozac

SEPTEMBER 14--An Indiana woman told police that she spiked her 12-year-old daughter's applesauce with Prozac because the child had trouble sleeping. Karen Walsh, 51, was arrested Wednesday and charged with a felony neglect count for giving her daughter the antidepressant for about the last six months. According to a probable cause affidavit, a copy of which you'll find below, Walsh knew that it was dangerous to provide the child with Prozac, which had been prescribed to Walsh herself. 'I was just trying to help her sleep and I guess I should not have done it,' she told a Johnson County Sheriff's Department deputy. Walsh, pictured in the above mug shot, gave her daughter about five milligrams of Prozac nightly, sometimes mixing the drug into the child's applesauce. (2 pages)