CHEMICAL ENDANGERMENT: Woman sentenced after guilty plea
Published 7:15 pm Wednesday, August 1, 2018
A woman arrested last year after her 2-year-old son swallowed a bag of methamphetamine was sentenced Wednesday in Limestone County Circuit Court.
Adrienne Louise Lockard, 27, pleaded guilty Wednesday to chemical endangerment of a child. Limestone County Circuit Judge Robert Baker sentenced her to 10 years in prison, but he suspended the prison time and gave her two years of unsupervised probation and ordered her to pay court costs.
While on probation, Lockard must not be arrested, she must pay her court costs on time, and she must stay clean and sober, said Limestone County District Attorney Brian Jones. Otherwise, her initial prison sentence could be reinstated.
Jones said any drug testing would be handled through the Department of Human Resources, which is overseeing the custody of Lockard’s child.
“It’s probably a fair outcome given the circumstances of the case,” said Harlan Mitchell, Lockard’s court-appointed defense attorney.
Lockard, who now resides in Goshen, Indiana, was arrested Nov. 14, 2017, and charged with chemical endangerment of a child, a Class C felony. The arrest came following an investigation by the Limestone County DHR.
A caseworker told a Limestone County sheriff’s investigator Lockard’s son had consumed a bag of methamphetamine. A photo of the child, which was included in the incident report, showed the child “wrapped in a towel in the fetal position. His pupils are heavily dilated as he is high on methamphetamine.”
The boy also tested positive for meth.