Smiling mom accused of leaving kids home alone to get high

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A Kentucky mother was all smiles for her mug shot after police allege she left her two toddlers at home alone to get high.

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Pikeville Police said officers were dispatched this week to an apartment following a report of a domestic incident in progress, according to the Appalachian News-Express, citing an arrest citation.

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After knocking on the apartment door, cops noted that two young children answered the door.

The children, two and four years old, were home alone after the officers entered the unit and didn’t find anyone else inside, the report said. The toddlers told police they didn’t know where their mother was.

After knocking on several nearby apartment doors, one neighbour informed the cops that the mother asked them to look after the children early that day and that she told them she wanted to “go smoke” not in the presence of her two children.

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“‘Go smoke’ is a common street term for smoking marijuana,” Pikeville Police Officer Braydn Hunter wrote in the report.

When the mother arrived at the apartment, cops noted she had a strong odour of alcohol, bloodshot and glassy eyes, and thick slurred speech.

“[The mother] then advised officers that she had only left the children downstairs for a couple minutes while she went to a neighbour’s house,” Hunter wrote.

The citation said the children were transported to the Pikeville Police Department to arrange for child protective services to pick them up.

Morgan Leanne Chapman, 23, of Williams Hollow, was booked at the Pike County Detention Center and is facing two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor.

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