VIDEO: 3-year-old in back seat while police investigated loaded needles, spoons…
HYANNIS – A 3-year-old girl was in the back seat of a car where police found needles and spoons… at least two needles were loaded with what appeared to be heroin, sources say.
This past Saturday evening, Barnstable Police responded to the Bobby Byrne’s parking lot for a report of suspected drug activity, involving needles and spoons.
(Note: The subjects were not believed to be patrons of Bobby Byrne’s…)
HN arrived at the scene shortly after police. A male passenger was being questioned by officers, he had allegedly just injected heroin. A 3-year-old girl was in the back seat, her mother was in the driver’s seat. According to sources, the mother admitted she had shot up heroin earlier that day.
Police searched the vehicle and removed needles and drug paraphernalia. The investigation ended up back at Barnstable Police Headquarters, where the child was taken from the mother and placed in DCF custody.
The following video documents the scene…
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HN NOTES: While documenting the above scene, the little 3-year-old girl was waving at me as innocent children often do in these situations. The image of this child in her pink boots and rain gear has been seared into my thoughts ever since. Children are not supposed to be around this type of reckless and dangerous behavior.
Speaking of reckless and dangerous behavior… there was a recent decision by a Barnstable superior court judge allowing a controversial “needle exchange” to continue doling out free hypodermic needles, cotton balls, alcohol wipes, tourniquets, “sex kits,” and tins for cooking heroin to active addicts from a house at 428 South Street, in a family neighborhood, near to three schools, and a residential program for babies and young mothers.
The Town of Barnstable Department of Health tried to shut this unapproved “needle exchange” down because there are serious reservations about the “program’s” overall safety. Many feel strongly the “needle exchange” needlessly endangers the children and families in the South Street area. In short, it is not the appropriate location for this type of program.
DCF just took the aforementioned child from her mother because she was around dangerous needles and drug activity… yet a “superior court judge” made the asinine decision to allow this so called “needle exchange” to continue to operate, by not only attracting the region’s active and irresponsible drug users into an existing school zone and family neighborhood, but by also arming them with hazardous medical supplies in order to reduce their risk of spreading diseases among themselves, while exponentially increasing the health risks for the already healthy uninvolved children and families in the area.
Hyannis is becoming more and more littered with needles. Needles which were carelessly discarded by active drug users. Since when is it a good idea to encourage and bolster this type of health risk near to schools, children, and families?
Where was DCF when Barnstable Superior Court Judge Raymond Veary Jr. just recently went against the Town of Barnstable Health Department’s better judgment by allowing a so called “needle exchange” to continue operating near to local children and families, putting them in grave danger of coming into contact with infected needles?
When two active drug users boot up around a 3-year-old in car, it’s called child endangerment. When a “superior court judge” blindly allows an influx of needles to be distributed to active users in a family neighborhood and school zone, thus putting an even larger number of children at risk, it’s called what?
I’ll let the people of Hyannis answer that question. In the meantime, I highly doubt there are any “needle exchanges” moving into Judge Veary’s neighborhood, wherever that may be…
12/3/2015
Robert Bastille,
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