Three is a little young to begin frying. Especially with 9 adult doses.
Whoever sees acid these days but boy did it make high school and college (and movies) interesting!
Seems like the mom did the right thing once he started behaving weirdly. Unless I missed it, she didn't know he'd taken some doses.
Somethings smells about this story. "LSD laced candies", in particular SweetTarts? I've never heard of such a thing. I've only ever seen acid on blotter or in microdots (very tiny pills), and in the days of old in gelatin ("windowpane") or powdered form. Can't really imagine someone going to the trouble of making candies out of it. I suspect something else going on and this is the best explanation they could come up with.
Based on the info given here, I don't think the child should have been taken from her. It's plenty traumatic to a child to be taken away from its mother and familiar home, and in all likelihood a lot more damage is being done to the child by taking him, than would occur if he was left with his mother. She needs to learn to exercise better judgement in choosing her friends (and most likely will, if she's the sort of person who has no record of arrests, much less convictions), but the criminal here is the guy who left LSD laced candies lying around in an apartment with a child roaming around. If this had been a huge house, he might not have known that a child had been brought in, but it's just not plausible that he didn't know in an apartment.
The state taking a child from its parent(s) is a VERY serious matter, and should only be done in the most extreme situations. And for borderline cases, where the facts are really fuzzy and the parent(s) might be really dangerous but also might be perfectly innocent, the relevant agencies should be equipped to bring the parent(s) and child(ren) TOGETHER to a supervised living facility, to avoid separation trauma to the child(ren).
"Ma'am, why didn't you call for help after your little boy started hallucinating?"
"Serves the little bastard right. He ate my stash."
Someone needs to tell Ashli that a) her parents are morons and b) it's spelled Ashley.
So can Black Sabbath
Game Show Host: Here's a question I ask of all our contestants: what made you drop out?
Bob Bitchin': A lot of people think it was the 400 Acid trips I took, you know?
Game Show Host: Uh-huh...but what was it really, Bob?
Bob Bitchin': One day I played Black Sabbath at 78 speed, man.
Game Show Host: Black Sabbath - And then what happened?
Bob Bitchin': I saw God, man.
Intensive care sounds awful curious too. An antipsychotic medication and physical restraints should be all that would be needed until the drug had worn off. Also -- a mental hospital rather than a medical hospital would have staff more knowledgeable about this sort of thing.
As someone who has done LSD dozens of times, I cannot imagine the hell this little child went through.
Poor kid.
Austin has a slogan - "Keep Austin Weird" - and they certainly seem to be succeeding in their efforts. This doesn't surprise me greatly as sad as it is.
Sounds like she is the typical mother who would rather have a good time with her latest "boyfriend" than be a good mother. No telling what her child has already witnessed and heard in its short life.
The lack of arrest record does say something in her favor but the comment about *absolutely morally pure* sends up a red flag to me. Our old welfare town was filled with people who did drugs. I just cannot believe she wasn't aware that these people were into drugs. It's too obvious.
"She was piecing together the story and doing her best to take care of her baby's medical problems and possibly not thinking as straight as she should have, but certainly not purposefully or neglectfully failing to call emergency personnel," Phillips said.
And there is some other way of not calling 911 in an emergency? Why did she even begin to think she could handle something like this? I consider her lack of immediate response deplorable. She was told up front what happened. She shouldn't have waited and let a friend do the calling for her.