Police: Boy Dead After Being Found Under Mom:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
INDIANAPOLIS -- A 2-year-old boy was pronounced dead after he was found beneath his passed-out mother -- who investigators say admitted she'd been drinking -- in an Indianapolis motel room early Wednesday, according to police.
Latasha McMorris' boyfriend found the two on the floor of an EconoLodge motel room on North Shadeland Avenue and, noticing that the boy wasn't breathing, called 911 at about 12:30 a.m., police said.
The boy, Sheldon Bartley Jr., was taken to Community East Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:10 a.m., police said.
McMorris who last year was convicted of child neglect and temporarily lost custody of the boy, was arrested Wednesday on a felony charge of neglect. Police said the boy may have suffocated, and that McMorris, 24, may have been under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs when she passed out.
An officer found bottles of gin and vodka in the motel room, according to a police report. The boy's paternal grandmother, Sandra Page, told 6News that McMorris had been scheduled to start rehab in Bloomington on Wednesday.
McMorris was convicted of child neglect last year after police found Bartley, then 20 months old, and his 6-year-old sister playing in a street in July. Child welfare workers temporarily removed the children from her custody, police said.
McMorris received a suspended one-year prison sentence. Afterward, she was accused of violating terms of her probation by failing to provide urine samples, testing positive for alcohol, failing to maintain a job, failing to perform community service and being arrested on suspicion of public intoxication.
Hold on folks, we may have a new 'champion' here.
(inhales deeply)
One point for the smothering, one point for get shitfaced around a two-year-old in a cheap motel, one point for having a child abuse conviction, one point for violating the probation of that conviction, and one point to the state of Indiana for allowing this excuse of a 'mother' to have the kids back.
(racks an abacus and an adding machine)
That's 5 points. A new record, and a new low in humanity.
