HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) Officers with the Horry County
Police Department have arrested a mother whose child was allegedly born with
several drugs in its system in January.
According to a police report obtained by WMBF News, officers
responded to the Department of Social Services on Jan. 18 after a social worker
said she had been assigned a case of a child testing positive for drugs.
The social worker said the child was born on Jan. 7 at Grand
Strand Regional Medical Center and the hospital notified DSS that the child
tested positive for cocaine, opiates and Benzo.
When the social worker spoke with the child's mother, Tanya
Key Moore Lightsey, 27, of Conway, Lightsey allegedly told the worker she
rubbed cocaine on her sore tooth and that was the reason the child was born
with cocaine in its system. The child was then placed into the custody of
another family member.
The report further stated that she didn't know why police
hadn't been notified of the positive test until more than a week later, as she
wasn't the person who received the original complaint.
Lightsey was arrested and charged with unlawful neglect of a
child, according to online booking records with the J. Reuben Long Detention
Center. Her bond was set at $5,000 for the charge and she remains incarcerated at this time.
Additionally, the social worker told police Lightsey was
also investigated in 2010 for giving birth to a child who tested positive for
drugs.
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Tanya Key Moore Lightsey has been charged with unlawful neglect of a child (Source: J. Reuben Long Detention Center)
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