Meth mom found passed out in running vehicle with toddler sleeping on the car floor
Yesterday around 7 p.m., Florida’s Indian River County Sheriff’s Office received a call regarding an unresponsive woman holed up in a car that was parked near the front emergency room entrance of the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital parking lot.
The Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene and later reported that they arrested the woman. She was taken into custody on drug-related and child neglect charges after she was found passed out from apparent drug use in her car – while her toddler son was discovered sleeping on the car’s floorboard.
The woman, identified as 30-year-old Carla Nancy Taylor of Roseland Road in Sebastian, was roused from her sleep when Deputy Avila pounded on her car’s window several times.
“Taylor was observed slumped behind the wheel. I observed a small toddler in the front passenger floorboard. The toddler appeared to be sleeping in a fetal positive with his head rested on the front passenger seat,” the deputy said. ~ Sebastian Daily
The little boy was checked out, medically cleared, and turned over to his maternal grandmother. The Department of Children and Families was also notified.
When deputies found the woman passed out in her car, they said that the vehicle was running and the air conditioner was on. The deputy noted seeing a glass pipe on Taylor’s lap, commonly used to smoke methamphetamine. Other pieces of suspected drug paraphernalia were also seen in the car.
The negligent mom is currently being held in the Indian River County Jail on $21,000 bail. She’s looking at multiple charges that include:
- felony child neglect,
- fentanyl possession,
- methamphetamine possession,
- buphrenorphine possession, and,
- misdemeanor drug paraphernalia possession.
(Source: Indian River Sheriff’s Office)
Aside: All of us at Ace News Today sincerely hope that Ms. Taylor gets the help she so obviously and desperately needs.
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