FERNDALE, Mich. -- A woman is facing up to 20 years in prison on accusations she attempted to bring a syringe full of heroin to her son at his suburban Detroit high school.

Sheila Black was arrested Tuesday in the parking lot of Ferndale High School after police say they received a tip that the woman was planning to deliver the heroin during her son's lunch hour.

The 41-year-old Metamora resident was arraigned Wednesday on a charge of possessing less than 50 grams of heroin with the intent to deliver. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 10 in district court.

Black told police her son had threatened to hurt himself if he didn't get the heroin, so Black agreed to buy the drug in Detroit and bring it to him, Ferndale police Detective George Hartley said. Hartley said Black bought 10 packs of heroin for $10 each.

"She took one of the packs of heroin and cooked it up in a spoon and drew the liquid into a syringe so he could take it into a bathroom at school and shoot it up," Hartley told The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak.

Black was arrested in front of the main doors of the school. She was in violation of a Lapeer County court order barring her from having contact with her son, police said.

Black has no criminal record. The court's probation department said Black has mental health and substance abuse problems and recommended she receive counseling. source

kay thats messed up... giving your own kid drugs...such a protecting mom..

Where do you find these things VampGirl?

"But I'm a cool mom!"

WTF!! haha.
'Jimmy, hurry up you'll be late for school!'
'Love you ma, i'm off to catch the bus!'
'Wait Jimmy! You forgot your crack!!'

My thoughts exactly!

sorry but this information isn't correct. Ferndale in in Oakland County and not in Lapeer. FYI.

Crazy story though, Haven't seen it one the news yet or in the paper. Ah well, I don't like to look at either most of the time cause it has nothing but depressing and horrible news.

I wonder why she had been banned from seeing her son!?!?
Lets hope its never lifted!

whoa! that's only a few miles from me! wow... that's just terrible...

"mom! can i have some heroine?"
"not until you finish your vegetables!"
"but MOM!!!!!!!!!!"
"no but's mister... eat your beans, and i'll get out the tunicate, and syringe"
*scarfs down beans*

LMAO!
Good one!

How would the mom know how to do all these things??? To cook it and such....
Things that make you go - hmmmm......

We should not judge! Okay, to deal with huge amounts of Heroin to enrich oneself, this is disgusting! But what do you mean, how far mothers go, who know of the addiction of her sons and don't want to let them down.
When the young man was on turkey, to bring him the dope was to prevent and assure that he at least can stay in school.
I do not know the exact circumstances, but we should rate such support-actions between an addict and his mother with sensible eyes. Mothers are always so disturbed and despaired to see their sons and daughters go down the drain, they hardly can judge right and often do things for them, that are nearly or actually criminal.

He told her he was going to hurt himself if she didn't give it to him. .

As a loving mother who was worried for her sons immediate safety... she didn't seem to have much of a choice..... well... I guess she could have got him to detox or something....

Burnside What is in your mouth..Hope it is legal

lol...im sorry, this just makes me think of all those stupid "Parents, the anti-drug" commercials running here in the US. Take that you "Parents the anti-drug" commercial people! it's not working! hahaha,....ok ok

im kidding.....

Well, in this case, it is definitely OK to blame the parents.

Why do you people not pay attention to the fact that he threatened to hurt himself?

Well, the woman did know how to make this stuff, which either means that she has been doing this for him for an ongoing period of time, or she used to do it herself. Anyway, in order for her to get it and make it and take it to him, that would take a little while. Instead of getting herione for her son, she could have been on the phone trying to get help for him! There are many alternatives to what this woman done. Counselors may not help(which isn't unusal), but it would be a better option than giving him heroine. In some cases, that could be just as bad as the boy hurting himself.

In some cases, the fact that he threatened to hurt himself might be a good reason to do something, but not in this case. Not when, in my opinion, she had time to do something about it.