A mother is charged after the alleged finding of cocaine in the organisms of her two daughters, who drowned in western Harris County, Texas.

Sisters Kelsey Kite, age 2, and Kinsley Kite, age 3, drowned in the backyard pool of their home on February 11. They lived on the property with their mother and grandparents.

On Monday May 11, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez revealed in a post on on, 23 years old, had been charged with two counts of injury to minors for her alleged involvement in the death of her daughters.

“Our investigation determined that both girls had cocaine in their body at the time of their death,” Gonzalez wrote in her statement.

The sheriff added that on Sunday May 11, “our Violent Criminal Apprehension Team (VCAT) coordinated with the Task Force.” “Caribbean Regional Apprehension of Fugitives, who arrested Nicholson in Florida and booked her into the Lee County Jail.”

According to court records obtained by ABC13, the medical examiner ruled that the girls' cause of death was “drowning and acute cocaine intoxication.”

In addition to cocaine, the girls had benzoylecgonine in their blood. The autopsies couldn't confirm or rule out death by drowning due to the difficulty determining the cause, as reported by Fox 26 Houston.

The girls grandmother found them in the pool when arrived home shortly after 11:00 a.m. The sheriff's office indicated at that time that the first eras investigations suggested that the girls had escaped to the backyard while their mother and grandfather were sleeping and their grandmother was at the supermarket.

Nicholson told authorities that he woke upon hearing his mother screaming after finding the girls in the pool.

Nicholson's mother also accused her daughter of using cocaine, according to ABC13, citing court records.