Toddler given meth-laced 'sippy cup' is hospitalized after 'possible overdose,' leading to 4 arrests: Sheriff 

Four adults successful Florida were arrested aft a 1-year-old drank from a methamphetamine-laced sippy cupful wrong their shared home. The quartet past waited respective hours earlier seeking aesculapian attraction for the toddler, authorities said.

Hayden Simmons, 21, Damien Windham, 21, Erica Catherine Foley, 45, and Judith Addison, 79, were taken into custody connected Wednesday and charged with 1 number each of kid neglect resulting successful large bodily harm, authorities announced. All 4 adults were "permanent residents" of the location wherever the incidental took place.

According to a news release from the Nassau County Sheriff's Office, the Florida Department of Children and Families contacted detectives connected Feb. 24 regarding a toddler who "had ingested methamphetamine the erstwhile day."

During the investigation, detectives learned the 1-year-old "drank from a sippy cupful that the parents aboriginal discovered contained a container astatine the bottom." Another nonmigratory of the location past confirmed that the container successful the child's cupful contained methamphetamine.

"Despite discovering the kid had perchance been exposed to the drug, neither the parents nor immoderate of the residents instantly called 911," the merchandise states.

Instead, they decided to show the kid overnight. When the toddler began vomiting aboriginal that evening, the parent drove the kid to a adjacent occurrence presumption to question help.

The toddler was aboriginal admitted to a section infirmary wherever they were treated for "a imaginable overdose," authorities said.

Deputies executed a hunt warrant astatine the defendants' location wherever they allegedly recovered cause paraphernalia, including respective solid pipes and containers with methamphetamine residue. As a effect of the search, Foley was charged with an further number of possession of cause paraphernalia.

All 4 defendants were booked into the Nassau County Jail & Detention Center. Bonds for Simmons and Windham were acceptable astatine conscionable implicit $25,000.

Foley's enslaved connected the 2 charges was acceptable astatine conscionable implicit $12,000, portion Addison's was acceptable astatine $5,002.

Fourth Judicial Circuit Judge Steven M. Fahlgren issued a tribunal bid prohibiting the defendants from having interaction with the toddler, records show. It was not instantly wide erstwhile the defendants were scheduled to look successful tribunal again.

"This is simply a heartbreaking and wholly preventable situation. A one-year-old kid was exposed to a dangerous, amerciable cause due to the fact that the adults successful that location failed to supply adjacent the astir basal level of attraction and protection," Sheriff Bill Leeper said successful a statement. "There is perfectly nary excuse for methamphetamine to beryllium wrong scope of a child."