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A Bay County baby is in critical condition after an accident officials say occurred while his parents were smoking methamphetamine.
This is the second time in two months where meth has played a part in the injury of a small child.
This time, it’s a two-year-old boy whose head was injured in an accident while authorities say his parents were doing meth at their home, Apartment B at 5916 Beach Drive on Panama City Beach. Officials say the child was hit in the head with a piece of wood after a chair that his father was sitting in broke.
They say instead of taking him to the hospital the parents reportedly put duct tape on the child’s head and continued smoking meth.
Deputies say the couple called 911 the next morning. The baby was life flighted to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola where he remains in critical condition.
“You take the drugs out of the picture and the child probably wouldn’t be hurt,” says Sheriff Frank McKeithen.
Authorities say the child’s parents, 25-year-old Jessica Huskey and 28-year-old John Paul Huskey are arrested and facing charges of child abuse and possession of methamphetamine.
“You know its, its horrible,” says Natalie Brady. She and Ray Reynolds live below the apartment where the incident took place.
They say they had some idea there might be drug activity going on upstairs. They tell News 13 when they reported various other incidents, they also reported their suspicions of their neighbor’s possible drug use.
“We kind of kept to ourselves because we didn’t want anything happening to our property or the wrong people coming,” Ray Reynolds says.
“It’s just really sad that this has had to happen to a young child.
“I’m just tired of it and I cannot understand why the citizens of the county don’t feel the same way I do,” Sheriff McKeithen says.
But Bay County residents are concerned and say that direct injury to the children isn’t the only harm that can come from meth.
“I think that the affects on children are horrible because a lot of children are orphans today because of the meth problem,” says Bay County resident Michelle Nunnery.
“I wish would have come forward a lot sooner and then maybe their son wouldn’t be in the hospital right now,” Reynolds says.
They Bay County Sheriff’s Office says it leads the state in the number of meth labs that have been dismantled since January. Sheriff McKeithen says it’s not because we have any more labs than other counties but because they are making it their number one priority to track them down.
Back in August a one-year-old little girl was severely burned in a meth lab explosion. That little girl, Johnna Osoborn, is still recovering from burns to her body. The Sheriff’s Office says she is still being treated but is out of the hospital. The parents in that case were also arrested.
In cases like these with kids getting hurt by mom and dad’s good time on drugs and we know for sure then i say hurt mom and dad the same way but don’t give no medical treatment to them the old eye for eye treatment instead of a bed and food and do nothing in the jail system damn these pieces of trash,garbage,scrum
You are correct, they should be sterilized! I am a grandmother who has adopted my two wonderful grandchildren and the reason was because of drugs. I have researched and researched but most of the rights are in favor of the parents, not the children. Sherrif McKeithen is doing an awesome job but he needs a great deal of support and it will take more from the government to pass laws for this to really show the impact we need and help protect all of these babies. When a child is born addicted to a drug, that parent should not only have their children taken away, they should be arrested, that is not the case, they go in front of a judge in Family Court not in Criminal Court and they still have the right to visitation with those children they have damaged. I will continue to wonder when that will change and hope there will be stronger penalties on those parents that abuse drugs!
Sheriff McKeithen, many of us are outraged at these meth addicts and the harm they do. Please continue your work and thank you for doing so. It is sad that children are getting injured, but your continued work to rid the county of this problem is keeping my family and others safe and for that we all owe you our gratitude.
These meth-heads should be sterilized so that they can never have kids again and this little boy should be forever removed from them. Trash like this do not deserve to have the privilege of children in their lives. Our laws need to get a lot tougher on this kind of human waste.
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I would like to see an update on how the child is doing. We always hear the tragic story. We would like some good news about these children being hurt by parents. Please if possible let us know how the child is doing. He and others like him are in peoples prayers and thoughts.