Mother accused of overdosing in store bathroom with son locked in car
07/30/2019 9:38 am PDT
By Andy Banker, KTVI
CHARLACK, Mo. (KTVI) -- A 24-year-old Florissant woman is accused of overdosing on fentanyl in a convenience store bathroom, leaving her 5-year-old son locked inside her car. No one else knew he was there.
Anastasia Trinidad was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Both she and her son could have died, police said.
St. Ann Police say the incident happened Thursday evening at a 7-Eleven store on St. Charles Rock Road in Charlack, which is patrolled by St. Ann police.
Employees at the store called police for help when Trinidad failed to come back out of the bathroom. Police found her slumped over in a stall, showing signs of a heroin or fentanyl overdose. An officer administered Narcan and Trinidad came to and almost immediately began asking “Where's my boy?”
Police found the boy in her car outside.
“[He] was in the backseat crying,” said St. Ann Police Commander Jeffrey Tesdall. “Further investigation showed it was upwards of 30 minutes she was in that bathroom and left her 5-year-old son unattended in the car. The windows were up.”
Trinidad remains jailed with her cash-only bond set at $200,000.
Her son is now in the care of his grandmother.
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