PHOENIX - A woman has been arrested after her 5-year-old daughter tested positive for methamphetamine.
Jacqueline Trousdale, 30, faces one count of child abuse and one count of endangering the life and health of a minor.
According to court documents, the charges stem from test results of a urine sample taken from her daughter several months ago.
In
the documents, police said they were contacted on October 14, 2012 by a
relative who reported that Trousdale’s two daughters told their father
and other family members their mother was injecting them with a drug and
allowing men to molest them for money inside a hotel room in Tolleson.
The
father told authorities he confronted Trousdale at the hotel, where she
was in the bathroom consuming drugs with the eldest daughter present.
According to court documents, the girls' father took the younger child
with him, but the 5-year-old girl refused to leave her mother.
Prior
child abuse allegations had been made with Phoenix police and Child
Protective Services and, according to the documents, CPS had been
looking for the children for a while.
The 5-year-old was
interviewed and said she was given a shot in the arm and in the foot. A
physical exam was also performed on the child, but there were reportedly
no signs of sexual assault.
The victim did have a fever, was
underweight and had a heart condition that had been untreated, according
to the documents. She was taken into CPS custody.
On October 30,
detectives found Trousdale in front of the Tolleson hotel and she
admitted to using methamphetamine around her daughters, but said she
usually used the drug when the girls were asleep.
On June 5, 2013,
the lab results from October showed a urine sample from the 5-year-old
contained methamphetamine and amphetamine.
Tolleson police found and arrested Trousdale on June 9.
According
to police, Trousdale was seen putting something in her bra and was
searched by a female detective who found the bra’s underwire removed and
bent, and three screws, apparently taken from a light inside the jail
holding cell. She was also charged with one count of theft.
Trousdale was arraigned in a Tolleson court on Wednesday.
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