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Couple Charged After Toddler Found Playing On Railroad Tracks

June 4, 2012 at 1:06 pm by Morbid

LOUISVILLE, Ky — A couple in Kentucky have been arrested after a 3-year-old was found playing on some railroad tracks by herself.

Police received a call from a concerned citizen who reported seeing the 3-year-old daughter of 26-year-old Victoria Carroll, playing on some railroad tracks with no adults in sight.

Officers were able to find the girl, and already knew where she lived. They had been to the child’s home several times in the past on reports of the toddler wandering the streets alone.

When the officers arrived at the house they found the front door open and Carroll’s boyfriend, 34-year-old Joshua Tate, passed out in the bedroom. He had no knowledge that the child was out of the house.

Carroll had left her daughter in the care of Tate, even though CPS had forbid her from doing so on a previous call, while she visited the neighborhood methadone clinic. Both she and Tate were arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor.

Tate, being the absolute winner he is, banged his head on the asphalt as well as the protective screen inside the patrol car during his arrest. This earned him an extra charge of resisting.

Carroll’s daughter was taken to the Home of the Innocents where she will be fed, tagged and then released into the wild where she will have a marginally higher life expectancy.

Tags: Child Endangerment, Crime, Drugs, Joshua Tate, Kentucky, Victoria Carroll

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Snickering Hydra

Tate: Ain’t nothin’ to it. Iz just like watchin’ a lil puppy dawg. Jus give a bowla fresh water and a lil snack and then go right to sleep. Well, g’night!

*Drinks self into stupor*

Great caretaker and father figure we have here.
62julietandvoid

Fucked up parenting but I cracked a smile at tagged and released into the wild.
http://twitter.com/tinalib13 Tina Wech

“Carroll’s daughter was taken to the Home of the Innocents where she will be fed, tagged and then released into the wild where she will have a marginally higher life expectancy.”

LMAO-funny, funny
Valerie

Did she at least have a pitbull to pull her off of the tracks in case a train came along? If she did, then they should lay off of these parents, they took the proper precautions. If not, did they train her to lay flat on the tracks and have the deprived her of food to keep her thin enough to stay out of harms way? I NEED to know these things before I can pass judgement on these parents.
OutOfBubbleGum

Joshua, dress her in a Super Man outfit before you pass out. Then, you can claim that’s she’s trying to be “more powerful that a locomotive.” This works during hunting season, too, ‘cause obviously she trying to be “faster than a speeding bullet.”
newstarshipsmell

“…banged his head on the asphalt as well as the protective screen inside the patrol car during his arrest. This earned him an extra charge of resisting.”

Because they couldn’t charge him with ‘attempted brain damage.’
newstarshipsmell

What I want to know is if the tracks are still in service. If not, that would be ironic and make me laugh.
Valerie

Considering he was already passed out, I would say that he had already completed the brain damage.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Yeah, because you can’t charge someone for damaging something that they don’t have.
EveryVillainIsLemons

I want to smack her ducklips off. You don’t leave your kid with the lowest bidder, especially after CPS tells you not to do it. Kid would have been safer with her at the methadone clinic.
donnakelli1

i was wondering where i could find all the psychopath profiles. guess this is the site.
DangerousKindOfSnark

Holy blue eye-shadow Batman! I don’t even know where to start with this train wreck. Where’s CT?
sherrdbw

You must be new. Welcome!
http://truecrimereport.com iLLusionS

Ohhhh that’s real nice. Hell of a couple of parents we have here. Real winners, methadone clinic and all.
CT

God damn it. If you think you are in jeopardy of a mugshot, keep up with your roots bitches or forget the blonde. Christ, that is blonde 101. Even I got that down.

You know @DangerousKindOfSnark:disqus, it’s hard to find good eye liner at the Dollar Store. The local clowns always beat you to the good shit.
CT

Do you think she meant us? Hmmp.
DangerousKindOfSnark

You just made me re-look at the mug shot, and I swear she has eyeliner in her lid crease…
lespacino

That last line is pure gold, the sort of irreverent humor that keeps me coming back to DD! That being said, they might as well take that approach- the tag will at least inform them who she is when they give her back and she ends up splattered on the front of a train.
lespacino

I think she just uses that spray sidewalk chalk and it collected in there…
CT

You made me look. Damn you.
JohnQknowitall

I just hate this kind of story blaming the parents and all: who can keep an eye on their kids 24 hours a day?
Eliza Berntsen

Why couldn’t she just take the kid with her to the clinic? Or would that be too much to ask?
DangerousKindOfSnark

Fair is fair honey, you made me look a second time first. ;P
JGo555

To the tune of “Thomas & Friends” theme song:

She 3, not 4, nor 6 or 8.
Playing is what she does best.
She can turn red, green & blue
when you beat her with a spoon.

You drank methadone today
while you left her with passed out Tate.
Out the door, into the world
played near tracks your little girl.

You could hire a babysiter.
You could put her in day care.
You could tie her to her bed
I’m sure that she’d be quite safe.
You could put her in a closet.
You could play some tv for her,
you could leave her with some dogs
they could protect her more.

She 3, not 4, nor 6 or 8.
Playing is what she does best.
She can turn red, green & blue
when you beat her with a spoon.

I’m thankful that you’re not on drugs,
laying off the methadone.
But could you listen to CPS?
That’s now, you’re going to jail.

Well the damned song is long as fuck but ya’ll catch my drift?

As sad as this is @PetePuma:disqus ’s right. Releasing her to the wild she stands a better chance.
JGo555

“…this train wreck…”

You think the kid was just playing on the track like other kids wear their mom’s clothes & shoes?
JGo555

I can lock ALL MY DOORS & put a nice fat lock HIGH ENOUGH TO KEEP MY KIDS INDOORS.

Nothing a LOCK can’t cure for these two “lottery” winners.
JohnQknowitall

Preaching to the chorus… All these day care issues at work? What they don’t have closets with locks?
lespacino

With two adventurous toddlers and only one of me. I found our alarm system handy. If they managed to get the door unlocked and open, I would’ve known in an instant!
sweekymom

If she can find a nice family of wolves to take her in, she’ll be looked after and brought up better than she would be with the folks she’s stuck with now. And she’ll learn some mad hunting skills, too.
captaingrumpy

Talk about Ferrell.
JohnQknowitall

Shock collars are much more effective especially if you need to use the bathroom.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SI2B7QEP5JTB2LMKBAU64I4TII Steve

I didn’t realize methadone makes you wear “I’m a whore” shade blue eyeshadow.
http://www.facebook.com/Leashaness Alicia Lynee’

Sadly they’ll probably just give the kid back to her trashbag mom and boyfriend. That’s how this situation has been handled every other time, why would anything different be done?