Watching her mommy O’D, what do you think this TWO-YEAR-OLD TODDLER CAN do, huh??? From Yahoo! News…
A 2-year-old was caught on video crying and pulling on her mother who had apparently overdosed and passed out on the floor of a Massachusetts discount store.
The toddler, dressed in pajamas, appeared to be in great distress as her mother lays motionless in the toy aisle of a Family Dollar store in Lawrence, but police said the mother did survive.
Someone reportedly recorded the video while bystanders called 911 on Sunday morning. Lawrence Police Chief James Fitzpatrick told WMUR he was disturbed that no one checked on or comforted the mom.
“I mean, it’s heartbreaking, obviously, to watch that video,” said Fitzpatrick “The child’s not being taken care of.”
Police said they found drug paraphernalia in the mother’s diaper bag. She was administered two doses of Narcan, according to reports.
The name of the mother has not been released but she will most likely be charged with child endangerment, according to police. The child is reportedly safe.
Fitzpatrick told WMUR that he doesn’t believe in shaming addicts, but says posting the video publicly could save lives.
“I could see that there’s a value in the fact that people can see, firsthand, how debilitating [drugs are] and what this addiction causes,” Fitzpatrick said. “Maybe it’s a message to stay away from these narcotics… Help people who are addicted to these narcotics, because it not only affects them, it’s a lot of collateral damage.”
Fitzpatrick’s decision to release the video comes about two weeks after an Ohio police department made the contentious call to share the un-blurred photo of a child in the backseat of a car with his overdosed grandmother and her friend slumped in front.
Many found it was insensitive to the child, but the East Liverpool Police Department in Ohio defended their actions, saying they were highlighting a disturbing epidemic that has gripped the community.
And, because this mother wanted to get high, she’d disregarded the adverse effect of her passing out would be on her own young, and this young kid already had too much to handle, in a matter of only a FEW short minutes, and, any GOOD parent KNOWS NOT to stress out her/his young like that.
Life, the Obstacle Course 