HONOLULU (AP) — An Oahu dental assistant is facing chargers after prosecutors say she gave a two-year-old patient narcotics during a routine checkup that left the child unconscious for 12 hours in 2013.
HONOLULU (AP) — An Oahu dental assistant is facing chargers after prosecutors say she gave a two-year-old patient narcotics during a routine checkup that left the child unconscious for 12 hours in 2013.
KHON-TV reports (https://bit.ly/1LSC8JE ) that 29-year-old Nicole “Momi” Dudoit turned herself into authorities Wednesday. She has been charged with assault and drug violations.
Dudoit is accused of giving the toddler Meperidine and Chloral-Hydrate during a November 2013 visit. State Attorney General Doug Chin says the girl was left unconscious for several hours and suffered a protracted loss of the central nervous system.
The incident took place at Island Dentistry for Children where another child, 3-year-old Finley Boyle, suffered brain damage from oral sedation weeks later. He died the following month.
Dudoit is set to appear in court Monday.