Teenage girl, 18, who smuggled pills into the same music festival where a young reveller died is let off with a slap on the wrist
- An 18-year-old woman has been sentenced for supplying drugs at a festival
- She was given a conditional release order for 18 months without conviction
- Alex Ross-King, 19, died from a drug overdose at FOMO festival on January 12
A teenager has dodged a conviction after supplying MDMA capsules she hid in a box of condoms at the FOMO music festival where Alex Ross-King overdosed.
Maddison Croxon, from Mallabula, NSW, was sentenced for supplying and possessing a prohibited drug on Wednesday.
The 18-year-old was handed a conditional release order for 18 months without conviction at Parramatta Local Court, in Sydney.
Mallabula girl Maddison Croxon, 18, was sentenced without conviction for supplying and possessing a prohibited drug at Parramatta Local Court in Sydney on Wednesday
A conditional release order is 'a warning and provides the option to divert less serious offenders out of the criminal justice system,' according to the NSW Correctional Services website.
Ms Croxon had 13 MDMA capsules hidden inside a box of condoms at FOMO music festival at Parramatta Park on January 12.
Police saw Ms Croxon hand an object to another female who swallowed the object near toilets at 2pm.
Plain-clothed police were patrolling the front entrance of FOMO festival, which attracted 15,000 revellers.
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Ms Croxon is pictured at another festival Groovin' The Moo in 2017. FOMO Festival in 2019 brought in 15,000 revelers including Alex Ross-King who overdosed and died in hospital
Central Coast girl Alex Ross-King, 19, suffered a drug overdose at the same festival.
She died in hospital later that evening.
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest that Ms Croxon supplied drugs to Ms Ross-King.
Ms Ross-King's death was the fifth drug overdose death in four months over the summer from 2018 to 2019.
Alex Ross-King (pictured), 19, suffered a drug overdose at FOMO music festival. She was rushed to hospital where she later passed away
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