[StBernard] St. Bernard mother arrested after her 14-month-old son tests positive for marijuana

[Westley Annis]

Geez...couldn't she just flush 'em?





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	St. Bernard mother arrested after her 14-month-old son tests
positive for
	marijuana
	Print Benjamin Alexander-Bloch, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By
Benjamin
	Alexander-Bloch, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
	on July 16, 2013 at 5:52 PM, updated July 16, 2013 at 7:11 PM
	
	A St. Bernard Parish mother was arrested after her 14-month-old son
	allegedly became unresponsive after eating the remnants of marijuana
joints
	that she had discarded in the backyard. The woman was booked Monday
with
	cruelty to a juvenile, which is a felony.
	
	Jaranique Goins, 21, of Violet, brought her son to St. Bernard
Parish
	Hospital in Chalmette on Friday about 2 a.m. after he was found
unresponsive
	in his bed, according to the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office. At
the
	hospital, it was determined the boy had marijuana in his system,
Sheriff
	Jimmy Pohlmann said.
	
	Goins allegedly admitted she often threw her "roaches" -- the
remainder of
	her joints or blunts -- out the back door after she was fnished
smoking. She
	said her son often played in the backyard and might have eaten them,
	according to Pohlmann.
	
	Goins spent the night in jail and was released Tuesday on a $10,000
bond.
	Cruelty to a juvenile is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
	
	Polhmann said child protection services have been notified of the
incident.