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SLO child tests positive for fentanyl, mother arrested

July 21, 2022

By JOSH FRIEDMAN

During the search of a San Luis Obispo home last month, detectives discovered a 5-year-old living surrounded by narcotics, garbage and lice. The child ended up testing positive for fentanyl.

On June 15, detectives served a search warrant a home in the 200 block of Higuera Street in SLO. Brynn Leanne Maddox, 28, lived at the home with her 5-year-old child and two adult relatives.

Detectives seized fentanyl and narcotic paraphernalia from locations in the living room that were easily accessible to the child. Additionally, the excessive accumulation of garbage, severe lice infestation and the lack of running water made the living conditions unsanitary and unsafe for the child, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office.

Child Protective Services removed the child from the home. Later, the child tested positive for fentanyl.

Authorities arrested Maddox for child endangerment likely to cause great bodily injury or death. Maddox was booked in the SLO County Jail with her bail set at $100,000.

On June 22, Maddox was released on a post-arraignment monitoring system.


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Not shocking. There are numerous situations such as this in our area. Just a drop in the bucket.


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Looking at her facebook account she had the discretionary income to purchase numerous, massive tattoos. I would think she would be able to afford a housekeeper as well.


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Where are this poor innocent 5 year old’s grandparents or other close relatives? So sad she has to be taken into the Foster Care system.


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Advocates for the legalization of drugs never acknowledge the multitude of negative and unintended consequences of drug use/abuse. Like an unchecked cancer, societies are weakened and rot from this irresponsible, selfish, shameful, destructive behavior. Invariably, innocent citizens and, most tragically of all, innocent little children unjustly suffer and bear the permanent scars from the inexcusable, self-indulgent drug addicted ”ah-dolts” in their life.


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The only people advocating for legal fentanyl are junkys and cartel members but all drugs are the same right?.


Drug deaths of children are up in the last few years true, but guess what kills kids more than drugs? Guns and more guns and those deaths are rising faster than drug deaths.


Guns like an unchecked cancer, advocates for the proliferation of guns never acknowledge the multitude of negative and unintended consequences from this irresponsible, selfish, shameful, destructive behavior from the inexcusable, self-indulgent ”ah-dolts”.


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Straw man fallacy.


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You are wrong ket. Portugal decriminalized ALL drugs in 2000. Liberals should research facts before making claims. Not all of us are easily manipulated ignoramuses that you think we are.


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A horrible environment for a child.


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There are worse parents.


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Yes and hopefully they get busted like this sad case. A 5-year-old tested positive for Fentanyl.


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Reminds me of the movie Trainspotting, where the addicts wake up to a dead baby corpse in its crib.


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Of course that most wonderful Mother and person Brynn Maddox is already out of jail. Of course that comes as NO surprise. Most wonderful justice system, right?


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Our society is becoming more and more depraved.


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Oh come on. This society has kept human beings in bondage, left the poor to die in the streets and incarcerated thousands of our own citizens during World War II.


True, this is despicable, but not a sign of the apocalypse.


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