Mother charged with child neglect after P-making chemicals found

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A mother has been charged with neglecting a girl after police allegedly found chemicals and equipment for making methamphetamine at her house.

Karena Heta appeared at the Auckland District Court today charged with having a .22 calibre rifle, supplying the class A drug methamphetamine and the class B drug gamma hydroxybutric acid, known as GHB.

According to police charge sheets, the 49-year-old had custody of a 12-year-old girl.

The charge sheet alleges that Heta neglected the girl "in a manner likely to cause her injury to health" by exposing her to the risks associated with taking methamphetamine.

Heta has yet to enter a plea to the drugs charges but pleaded guilty to a charge of trespassing at the Auckland Sky City Casino.

Judge Philippa Sinclair said Heta had been caught playing the pokies after being trespassed. She convicted and discharged Heta.

Heta pleaded not guilty to another previous charge of driving while suspended

Her lawyer Maria Pecotic said she would be seeking bail on the more serious drugs charges at the end of the month.

Judge Sinclair remanded Heta in custody.

Outside court, her lawyer Maria Pecotic said the charges "are not accepted".

Heta is due back in court later this month,