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Mom busted in Facebook ‘high’ jinks

(AP)

This prank went to pot.

A teenage Florida mom thought it’d be funny to snap a picture of her 11-month-old son playing with a bong and slap it on Facebook, but the half-baked scheme landed her in the clink.

Cops busted Rachel Stieringer, 19, of Keystone Heights, after a computer user in Texas saw the picture and called an abuse hotline to report her.

Stieringer was charged late last month with possession of drug paraphernalia and posted $502 bail.

It doesn’t appear the baby boy was injured, and drug tests on him came back negative.

But after the doob-ious display, Stieringer took to Facebook once again to defend herself trying to convince readers that there was nothing wacky about the “tobacco pipe” in the pic.

“If u look at the picture u can see that there is no bowl in the TABACCO [sic] pipe,” she wrote.

“And i took a pic to show one [expletive] person and it was a mistake. I would never ever ever let him get high.”

Stieringer said she understands how much trouble she’s caused.

“Do you realize how serious this is? i can go to jail and he can be taken away from me. WHY would you do something so [expletive] stupid?” she wrote.

“i know what i did was stupid but i would NEVER put [my] baby in harm. im so nice to everyone idk [I don’t know] why you would do this to me.”

In the now-infamous Facebook shot, the baby is in a blue T-shirt and diapers, with his little hands wrapped around a bong that’s almost as tall as he is.

Stieringer’s mom, Sharalyn Harris, said her daughter doesn’t want to talk about the incident.

“She’s doing the best she can” to cope with all the attention, Harris told The Post yesterday.

“It’s been blown up, blown out of proportion.”

But she admitted that Stieringer had a “stupid” lapse in judgment by posting the bong-and-baby picture.

“It was dumb, it was a stupid mistake which we’re all paying for dearly,” Harris said. “But that’s all it was, a stupid mistake.”

Florida child-welfare officials were not amused.

“We are alarmed that any parent would take pictures of their child next to what is obviously drug paraphernalia,” said John Harrell, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Children and Families.