Police: 3 women jailed after children test positive for drugs

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HORRY COUNTY, SC (WBTW) – Three women were booked into the J. Reuben Long Detention Center for child neglect after each of their children tested positive for drugs.

Horry County Police confirms Sheena Lopez, 27, of Conway, is charged with one count of unlawful neglect of a child after routine drug testing confirmed her infant tested positive for marijuana. The baby, born September 17, was placed in protective care with South Carolina Department of Social Services after testing positive at birth for illegal drugs.

A second incident report from Horry County Police states 27-year-old Shacha York is charged with unlawful neglect of a child after her infant also tested positive for marijuana upon birth. The infant was delivered at Conway Medical Center September 26 and was placed in protective custody by South Carolina Department of Social Services.

Horry County Police state Cheyenna Henderson, 19, was also booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center Friday on one charge of unlawful neglect of a child. A representative from the South Carolina Department of Social Services had Henderson’s child tested for drugs after reports of child abuse. The hair test performed on the child, whose age was not released, came back positive for marijuana.

All three women were jailed Friday, and York was released from prison on a $10,000 bond Friday afternoon. Lopez and Henderson remain behind bars Friday night each on a $10,000 bond.

http://wbtw.com/2015/10/23/police-3-women-jailed-after-children-test-positive-for-drugs/
 
This happened in my City also...but the parents were not jailed. DCF got involved...and the baby was allowed to go home after several days. But the Parents were drug tested randomly...for 6 weeks I think.
 
Why not test while pregnant? If you can charge a mother for what she did while pregnant seems her body argument is voided...
 
Why not test while pregnant? If you can charge a mother for what she did while pregnant seems her body argument is voided...

What about also testing the father too? My dad was an alcoholic and his dad was one and so on. Dad's son is an alcoholic this trait is so engrain in our family that one of my sister' baby was born as risk of being an alcoholic and sadly her doctor was right . The DR. warned my sister her baby could be come an alcoholic . This is why I never drank b/c I have the markers to become an alcoholic . People are forgetting to the dads too.
 
Why not test while pregnant? If you can charge a mother for what she did while pregnant seems her body argument is voided...

Explain please..the body argument bit..
Poor kids smoking full stop with infant bad.had theses children been given it or were mothers breast feeding and it got into babies systems
 
What about also testing the father too? My dad was an alcoholic and his dad was one and so on. Dad's son is an alcoholic this trait is so engrain in our family that one of my sister' baby was born as risk of being an alcoholic and sadly her doctor was right . The DR. warned my sister her baby could be come an alcoholic . This is why I never drank b/c I have the markers to become an alcoholic . People are forgetting to the dads too.

Not forgetting the fathers... It is the fact that I disagree with taking childern from parents and placed in state care... But, some drugs and all alcoholic drinks can and do cause birth defects... Why punish someone after the damage is done? But then what of smoking or eating unhealthy foods... The list goes on...
 
Explain please..the body argument bit..
Poor kids smoking full stop with infant bad.had theses children been given it or were mothers breast feeding and it got into babies systems

I am going under the impression that women are not tested or arrested for doing drugs while pregnant because it falls under the laws of a baby is not a baby until first breath until then it is an aspect of the mother's anatomy... In short it's the woman's body and her choice argument...
 
Why not test while pregnant? If you can charge a mother for what she did while pregnant seems her body argument is voided...
I believe the thinking on that is it would scare the pregnant users away from prenatal care appointments.
 
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