SAN ANTONIO — A woman and her boyfriend are facing child endangerment charges in Texas after a video of a toddler smoking marijuana circulated on social media.
According to KSAT, Bexar County sheriff’s deputies arrested Larissa Contreras, 18, and Thomas Esquivel, 19, amid allegations that the pair urged Contreras' 3-year-old brother to smoke the drug, filmed the incident and shared it on Facebook.
Deputies continue to investigate the case, the Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post Thursday.
Deputies said the viral clip, which they discovered Monday, showed the boy smoking a marijuana cigarette as adults encouraged him, KSAT reported. Investigators later identified Contreras as one of the people in the video, according to the news outlet.
Contreras' parents had asked her to watch the child before the video was filmed, authorities said. The boy is in his parents' care and will undergo a drug test, according to KSAT.