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A 24-year-old West Bend woman was sentenced Tuesday to a year in the Washington County Jail - with the prospect of four years in state prison if she doesn't change what a judge called her "continuous and consistent use of drugs" - for leaving LSD-laced candy out where her 2-year-old daughter was able to eat some. Maki Recent Coverage 8/2/07: Child eats drugs on candy

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Washington County Circuit Judge Andrew T. Gonring sentenced Donielle M. Maki to jail as a condition of five years' probation, but also imposed and stayed a sentence of 1 1/2 years in prison for felony child abuse and 2 1/2 years in prison for possession of LSD with intent to deliver.
That means if Maki violates terms of her probation, she will be sent to prison immediately to serve those sentences, Gonring told her.
Maki pleaded guilty in February to the two counts. As part of a plea agreement, three other drug-related charges were dismissed.
According to court documents, Maki and Valerie J. Anderson, 29, took Maki's daughter with them to Milwaukee in late July to buy 10 LSD-laced candies.
They returned to West Bend about midnight. Maki told police she bought the drugs to give to a cousin.
Maki put the candies in her purse and "passed out" on a couch. She woke up the next day to find her daughter eating the candies saying, "I like these, Mommy."
Maki then called her sister, Tanya R. Maki, 21, to buy some medicine to induce her daughter to vomit before taking the girl to a hospital.
In the course of the investigation, Maki persuaded her sister to lie to police and tell them a man had left the drugs at the house. Tanya Maki was fined $225 for obstructing an officer.
Tuesday's sentencing was set to occur earlier this year but was delayed after Tanya Maki was shot to death in April in the parking lot of a Milwaukee apartment complex where she lived. Police continue to investigate her slaying, and no arrests have been made.
On Tuesday, Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens said Donielle Maki was running a drug house, noting that police found nearly a quarter pound of marijuana there, a number of narcotic pills for which she did not have prescriptions, and eight more tablets of LSD.
Martens also said Donielle Maki admitted to police she sold nearly a pound of marijuana a week from the house.
"That makes you a major drug dealer, Ms. Maki," Gonring said.
Thomas and Donna Maki, Donielle's parents, asked Gonring not to send their daughter to jail.
"I'm asking for the compassion of the court to not send my daughter to jail," Thomas Maki said. Donielle Maki asked for probation.
"I realize drugs have ruined my life. By sending me to jail you're not just punishing me, you're punishing my family," she told Gonring.
Martens countered that a probation-only sentence was not an option.
Martens pointed out that Maki had tested positive for marijuana two months after completing a 32-session drug counseling course.
She and her parents also admitted that she drank beer recently, violating conditions of her bail.
"The question is not whether she should be incarcerated, but where she should be incarcerated," Martens said. "She can't even stay straight when she's out on bail in a drug case."
Martens recommended Maki be given at least a year in jail and a lengthy probation with the threat of prison.