Deland, FL (The Weekly Vice) - Patricia Reynolds, a 39-year-old Florida woman was arrested Saturday after she allegedly left her 4-year-old daughter home alone all night to go on a crack-cocaine binge.
According to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, a 4-year-old girl dressed in pajamas appeared on her neighbor's doorstep crying about 5:45 a.m. telling the neighbor that she had awaken to find her mother gone.
Investigators say the woman took the child inside, calmed her down and then walked over to the girl's apartment, but no one was home. That's when she called 911, asking deputies to look into the matter.
The little girl told deputies that her mother was home when she went to sleep, but was gone when she awoke.
Deputies searched the neighborhood and then expanded their search to surrounding areas - eventually finding Reynolds later that morning at a gas station known to be a hot spot for drug activity.
After deputies apprehended Reynolds and placed her in the back of a patrol car, she reportedly became violent, banging her head against the partition in the back seat of a patrol car. She then slipped out of her handcuffs and attempted to flee, however deputies caught her. She repeatedly banged her head against the ground as deputies re-handcuffed her.
Reynolds was treated at a local hospital for lacerations to her hard head when she reportedly told a hospital worker that she had been out all night using crack-cocaine.
She was booked into the Volusia County Jail on charges of child neglect, prisoner escape and resisting an officer with violence.
The child was placed in the care of a relative.
Danny Vice
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Damn, how hard is this lady's head? She must have been really cracked out! I am glad that kid is away from her. Hopefully she will live a better life and get the love and care that she can't get from a selfish crackhead like her mother.....
Wow! What a terrible mother! I'm glad that the little girl is safe now. So many things could have happened to her. What if she would have knocked on the door of a person who was a pedophile or worse. I suppose she's already endured the dangers of living with a crack head mother. Doesn't get much worse that that.
Another Mother of the Year Candidate!
There's a woman who has been completely overtaken by the drug.
I'll bet she was a halfway decent parent before getting herself strung out on crack. That stuff is wicked.
There's a woman who has been completely overtaken by the drug.
I'll bet she was a halfway decent parent before getting herself strung out on crack. That stuff is wicked.
Poor kid.
And where is the baby daddy?
you guys just don't get it do you.....drugs and alcohol are not a moral issue...what her case shows is how powerful the compulsion is...Jeez....
Anon is right. Addictions can be so strong that nothing else is of any importance. It's to late for her but few people are ever forced to take a drink or smoke a crack pipe.
People think they're stronger than the drugs. Despite the odds they ingest them anyway. She made the decision to do the crack, for whatever reason(s). Her actions have consequences.
Any sin has two results. It seperates man from God and it creates evil effects in this world. Sadly the evil effects aren't always on the one who did the sin. In this case it affects the child as much as the mother.
Well what can you say about this? Some people should just not have kids. I hope she can get herself some kind of help and be able to make amends with the poor child. Sad.
damn, put some makeup on that face!! use your money for that!
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