CUMBERLAND, Indiana — A former day care director will spend six months in jail for giving kids melatonin gummies without parents' permission.
Tonya Voris, of Fortville, pleaded guilty to 17 criminal charges, including felony neglect. On Friday, Feb. 2, a judge sentenced her to six months in jail.
Voris ran the Kidz Life Childcare Ministry in Cumberland. She admitted to giving children supplements to make them sleep, doing so without parental consent.
Court documents said Voris was giving gummies to 17 children daily. The pediatric doses went to little ones, ages 1 to 4.
"According to the probable cause, some of these children did have some side effects from what happened," Hancock County Prosecutor Brent Eaton said. "Some children complained of headaches or itching in a time period these things were happening."
