Texas Mom Accused Of Serving Boozy Jell-O Shots At Elementary School Party

Teresa Isabel Bernal told police she didn’t know the shots had alcohol, but the ad for the product she bought apparently had “Smirnoff” written on the bottom.

A Texas mom is facing a charge of reckless bodily injury to a child after she allegedly served alcoholic Jell-O shots at a Christmas party for her daughter’s fifth-grade class.

Teresa Isabel Bernal, 33, of Tyler, was arrested Monday for the Dec. 20 incident at her daughter’s elementary school after the assistant principal told a police officer they believed a parent had brought gelatin shots containing booze to a class party.

Police interviewed 15 students who claimed to have imbibed the juiced-up Jell-O, and almost all of them reported having stomach pains and headaches afterwards, according to documents reviewed by Law & Crime.

One boy told police he vomited twice that day, while another student said he “passed out.” Another student said in an interview a few weeks after the incident that he had six shots, got dizzy and fell and felt like he couldn’t get back up on his feet.

Two teachers who sampled the Jell-O shots also suspected they had alcohol, according to an arrest affidavit.