A surveillance video has revealed the shocking scene of an Ohio mother shooting up heroin in an alley as her little son looked on.
Lauren Story, 29, of Green Township, is now facing charges after Police say she was seen in the video injecting the drug with a syringe along with a male friend. Her 4-year-old son sat in front of them, playing with a smartphone.
John Donaldson of Grant Park Block Watch took the video in an alley near a park last week.
“I saw the little boy sitting there against the wall really behaving himself while the two were preparing to shoot up,” Donaldson told the station.
“I think the people [who live here] are solid people,” he said. “The people that are the problem are the people that come down here and sell their dope and the people that come down here and buy their dope.”
Donaldson showed the video to police who then arrested Story.
Police said they found four syringes in the Mother’s purse when they took her into custody. The woman is being held on $22,000 bond on charges of child endangering and possession of drug paraphernalia and drug abuse instruments.
“People have sympathy for people who use heroin but that sympathy ends when you’re doing it in front of your children,” prosecutor Dave Wood said. A judge told her she could not be around her son unless county child caseworkers allow it. The boy was put in the care of a relative.
