Day care gets slap on wrist with meager $50 fine after baby tested positive for crystal meth: One of the worst things Ive ever seen
A Mississippi day care was fined just $50 following an investigation involving a 9-month old baby who tested positive for crystal meth hours after leaving the facility — a punishment the child’s desperate parents bemoaned as a “punch in the gut.”Marla and Johnathon Demita – started to panic when their infant, Dean, started exhibiting distressing behavior out of nowhere on the afternoon of May 20, according to a shocking investigation at Mississippi Today. “And I’m not talking about fussy crying.I’m talking about blood-curdling screams,” Marla told the outlet.
“It was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen.”Marla and Johnathon shuttled the baby from the pediatrician to the children’s hospital, but no one could give them answers.Dean, who is now 10 months old, was normally a happy baby, but after she picked him up from Little Blessings Daycare in Yazoo City he was crying and acting like he didn’t recognize her, according to the report. “It’s like he looked straight through me, like he didn’t know who I was,” Marla told Mississippi Today. The baby shrieked in agony from 7:45 p.m.on the day of the incident until 4 the next morning, according to Mississippi Today’s report. It wasn’t until emergency room doctors ran tests that they found the culprit: crystal meth.
Hospital records obtained by Mississippi Today show Dean had an irregularly fast heartbeat and wailed for four hours straight. A doctor determined that Dean ingested the drugs between 12 and 4 p.m., when Dean was at the day care center, according to the report.But the Mississippi Department of Health fined Little Blessings just $50 after Dean’s ordeal.The agency could not confirm the baby ingested methamphetamine while at day care, according to a report obtained by Mississippi Today.The department fined Lisa Martin, the center’s director, for failing to report what happened as required by regulations, according to Mississippi Today. The Health Department did n...