A Florida couple was found unconscious in their car with the driver’s side door wide open and an 8-month-old baby in the backseat, police say.
Volusia County police found that the baby ‘had not had her diaper changed in some time as the diaper was saturated with fluids and leaking from the diaper edges around the legs,’ according to a Facebook post from the department.
The girl appeared hungry and reached for a bottle when she saw it, police say.
The officer who found them in a parking lot around 3am on Monday also found ‘residue’ that allegedly tested ‘positive for the presence of opiates’.
Sean Gannon and Kimberley McCaffrey were arrested after police found them unconscious in their vehicle around 3am on Monday. Police say they found ‘residue’ that allegedly tested ‘positive for the presence of opiates’
The two adults: 34-year-old Kimberly McCaffrey and Sean Gannon, 33, were arrested, WLWT reports.
McCaffrey was charged with drug possession and child neglect. Gannon was charged with driving on a suspended license and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Bodycam footage from the arresting officer shows her approaching the vehicle.
Police found the car with its driver-side door wide open. Police tapped on the car to get the attention of Gannon
Police asked Gannon: ‘All right. What are we doing in the parking lot passed out with the door open and a baby in the back seat?’ ‘I apologize,’ says the man
The baby was hungry and her diaper was ‘saturated with fluids,’ police say. The baby was put in the care of the Department of Children and Families
The officer notices a baby inside the back seat. The driver’s side door is open. The man is in the driver’s seat, and the woman is in the passenger’s seat.
She taps on the car, which awakens the man.
The officer asks: ‘How’s it going?’ The man mumbles as he wakes up.
‘All right. What are we doing in the parking lot passed out with the door open and a baby in the back seat?’
‘I apologize,’ says the man.
The Facebook post notes that the arresting officer noticed track marks on his arms, which indicates intravenous drug use.
Gannon allegedly told officers that the group had stopped for a coffee.
The child was put in the care of the Department of Children and Families.
The Facebook post concludes: ‘The opioid epidemic touches innocent lives every day.’