sacramento-A "moment of panic" landed a couple in jail after they tried to beat a drug test by paying a young neighbor for her urine, according to police.
In jailhouse interviews, 40-year-old Dwana Janeece Gaines and her longtime boyfriend, 50-year-old Vincent Walker, said they panicked when a parole officer called to inform Gaines that she would need to submit to a drug test within a couple hours.
A "moment of panic" landed a couple in jail after they tried to beat a drug test by paying a young neighbor for her urine, according to police.
In jailhouse interviews, 40-year-old Dwana Janeece Gaines and her longtime boyfriend, 50-year-old Vincent Walker, said they panicked when a parole officer called to inform Gaines that she would need to submit to a drug test within a couple hours.
Gaines, who was on parole for forging checks, said her urine would have shown evidence of her recent meth use.
"At the time, I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to go back to prison," Gaines told CBS13. "Sometimes in your life, when you're in situations like that, you do things that you don't think about."
When two neighbor girls, ages six and nine, dropped by to say hello, Gaines and Walker offered to pay the younger girl five dollars for her clean urine.
"We just thought about it when we seen them and asked them, and the little girl peed for me. That was it," Gaines said.
When the parents of the girl found about the incident, they confronted the two suspects and called police.
Gaines was arrested on $85,000 bail for charges of felony child molestation and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Walker was arrested on $20,000 bail for annoying or molesting and child and probation violation.
Both suspects told CBS13 they profoundly regret the incident and say the decision was one of bad judgment, not maliciousness.
"She was just trying to beat the system so she wouldn't go back to the penitentiary," Walker said.
Gaines said she should have "been a better person," but insisted there was no other abuse of the children.
"We don't do nothing to kids, that's just not us," she said.
Both suspects are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon.