Video of small child allegedly on Ecstasy

[tlword]

When I saw the picture of the little girl and read the article the first thing that came into my mind was my 4 year old step-daughter. That little girl appears to be about the same age. I hope she is okay. My heart goes out to her.

[mercyandgrace]

I saw the video in it's entirety. 8 people were in the van and they've all been identified by the police.

Ecstacy leaves the body quickly, so a urine sample won't help. However, a medical doctor determined that the child was having a drug induced brain seizure. The teenage girls kept saying "look at her roll" which is a drug term for people on X....hence the rolling of the eyes. The girls also inferred that the child took X.

Charges will be brought against the adults, and possibly the teenage girls.

One of the 8 people will cave. This is a very serious situation.

[bergie38]

Saw this in the news today: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288797,00.html

The fact that the child's mother may have given the child the drug makes it even more heartbreaking. I hope the people involved will be arrested and this child can be saved.

This made me cry. I can hardly stand this stuff anymore!! :gaah I just don't get why these horrible things keep happening. That poor sweet innocent child. Seriously, my heart can't take much more. :ohno

[Kelly4C]

I just watched the video and it sort of seemed like the little girl was just playing around. Notice how she smirks at the teens a couple times before she starts rolling her eyes back again. er reactions don't ring true to me of a child that age being on drugs but what do I know? I've never seen anyone on exstasy.

[cryo]

I just watched the video and it sort of seemed like the little girl was just playing around. Notice how she smirks at the teens a couple times before she starts rolling her eyes back again. er reactions don't ring true to me of a child that age being on drugs but what do I know? I've never seen anyone on exstasy.

Well, that's why I put "allegedly" in the thread title. I don't know the effects of "X" either, but it will be interesting to see what the result of this story is.

[liquid22]

Hi all. :wave

I'm new to posting but have been a long time reader of this site & message board.

I live in Houston and saw this story on the local news and was very disturbed by it.

While a urine test would not help since it quickly flushes out in a couple of days a doctor could perform a hair test. Hopefully they will because a hair sample will show if the child has been given any other drugs and in what quantities for as much as 90 days or longer depending on the length of hari, which appeared to be kind of long...long enough anyway.

They all should be locked up for that and I pray the Lord's return is near mostly for the children's sake.

[Cd4u_2]

They can probably tell the child was acting if the investigators could get her to act that way again WITHOUT the drugs.

[Kelly4C]

Well, that's why I put "allegedly" in the thread title. I don't know the effects of "X" either, but it will be interesting to see what the result of this story is.


Oh, I didn't mean to insinuate that you shouldn't have posted the story... This story was even on the news and yeah, they do need to get to the bottom of it for sure. Very worrisome if the little girl was indeed given drugs.

[cryo]

Oh, I didn't mean to insinuate that you shouldn't have posted the story... This story was even on the news and yeah, they do need to get to the bottom of it for sure. Very worrisome if the little girl was indeed given drugs.

I didn't at all infer that you were implying I shouldn't have posted the story, so no worries! :thumb I was just confirming that by using "allegedly" I am admitting nothing is conclusive yet in this story.

[professor h]

Apparently this happened in my neck of the woods...here's more...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4958191.html

Witnesses deny tot in video was on Ecstasy
Deputies trace 2-year-old and others in van to Harris County

Harris County authorities have located the 2-year-old child who was videotaped on the back-seat floorboard of a moving van while teens joked that she had taken the drug Ecstasy.

Lt. John Martin, a spokesman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office, said Tuesday that all nine people in the van — the toddler, an infant, four teens and three adults — are from Houston and were returning from Padre Island when the video was taken.

Everyone interviewed said the girl was not on Ecstasy, despite contrary claims on the video. Martin said that authorities have yet to determine whether she, indeed, was given the dangerous stimulant and hallucinogenic. No charges have been filed.

"There is not enough information to say with any degree of certainty whether or not (the toddler) was exposed to any illegal drugs," Martin said.

In the video, which originally appeared on YouTube, the 2-year-old child is seen crouching on the back-seat floorboard of the car and rolling her eyes back until only the whites are showing. A young woman in the car laughingly taps and squeezes the little girl's cheeks, telling her to stop rolling her eyes.

"Cookie, stop rolling, girl," she said. "You shouldn't have popped no x."

Investigators were told in interviews that the toddler had merely been asked to roll her eyes back into her head while they videotaped her, Martin said.

He said the little girl's mother, who is 21, was in the van when the video was taken. The video later was posted on YouTube with a link to a MySpace account maintained by one of the teens.

Martin could not say how investigators located the people in the van, but a spokeswoman for MySpace said the social networking site had cooperated with authorities in their investigation.

Harris County Child Protective Services spokeswoman Estella Olguin said the agency is eager to conduct its own investigation now that the children have been located. Aside from the toddler, an infant is seen being passed from person to person in the back seat.

The people who were in the van told authorities the video was shot on June 22, Olguin said. The two small children have been placed in the custody of relatives while the investigation is conducted, she said.

"We are looking at more than just whether a crime was committed," she said. "We also are looking at the welfare of these children, if they are in a safe environment, if there is cause for concern."

The video, which appeared on other Web sites after it was removed from YouTube, revealed ties to both Harris County and Jackson County. An announcer on the car radio is heard giving the call letters KHCB FM, which is a Christian station in Houston. An instrumental version of Jesus Loves Me is playing in the background.

The Jackson County Sheriff's Department and the FBI took part in the investigation.

melanie.markley@chron.com