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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-heroin-day-delivering-stillbirth-jailed.htmlA woman who admitted to snorting heroin the day before she delivered a full-term stillborn baby could be jailed on child endangerment charges.
Raven Lynn West, 23, from Alabama, delivered the stillbirth on October 9, just days after being released from jail on bond.
She had first been arrested and jailed for child endangerment charges on May 4, 2016, but was released the same day, before again being put behind bars on August 19 after failing to appear before court, Alabama.com reports.
West was released from jail on bond on October 6, when she was 37 weeks pregnant, and taken to a facility for drug-addicted pregnant women.
However, court documents reveal the 23-year-old confessed to walking away from the center on October 8 to buy a bag of heroin.
She then snorted it in the bathroom of a local business in Birmingham, the newspaper reports.
West told police as she inhaled the drug, she could feel her baby kicking.
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'This is the exact scenario that police and the District Attorney's Office was (and still are) trying to prevent in the recent Laird case,' Lt. Reid told the newspaper.
'The Alethia House, while well-intentioned, does not have control of its patients, who use their sympathy and lack of control to simply walk away when they get the slightest urge to use drugs.
'In this case, West, who was nine months pregnant, was released from jail to go to the Alethia House where she promptly left and took a large blast of heroin.
'Less than 12 hours after she admitted that she snorted heroin, she delivers a dead baby that she said she felt kicking just earlier that day. A dead, viable, 7-pound baby. I am absolutely sickened and heartbroken over this. '
A trial date for West has not been set.
Laird case as quoted above:
A young mother who has previously been indicted after her first daughter was born addicted to heroin has been jailed on new child endangerment charges until her second baby is born.
Alexandra Nicole Laird, 21, from Pleasant Grove, Alabama, has been jailed without bond until her baby is born in about 20 weeks.
Police asked the judge to step in and deny bond because they are worried about the danger Laird could cause to her unborn child, according to Alabama.com.
'I'm doing my damndest (sic) to try to prevent any further damage to this child, since it's obvious the mother doesn't seem to care,' Pleasant Grove police Lt. Danny Reid told the newspaper.
The 21-year-old mother was sent to jail at the Bessemer Cutoff on September 8, having failed a court-ordered drug test after missing a hearing in late August.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-woman-admits-heroin-jailed-gives-birth.htmlOnce she tested positive, Laird admitted to using heroin, 'three times a day', according to Alabama.com.
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Judge Hobdy ruled in favor of Reid's request for no bond to be granted.
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It comes after Laird was indicted in April 2015 following the birth of her first child on March 29, 2015.
Court records at the time showed the young girl was found to have traces of opiates and amphetamines in her system.
Just days after she was born, the girl had to be treated for withdrawals.
After being arrested on May 1, 2015, and charged with chemical endangerment of a child, Laird has remained free on bond.