Mom Trina Rae Carroll Arrested for Abuse when Meth Found in Her Toddler Son
In Foothills, Arizona, Trina Rae Carroll was arrested for child abuse, child endangerment, and involving a minor in drug abuse. Methamphetamine was found in the system of her two-year-old son. The charges are considered felonies and Carrol has two priors.
She’s currently in jail with her bond set at $11,105
Carroll took the toddler to hospital when he began crying uncontrollably and complaining of stomach pain. That’s when hospital staff found methamphetamine in the child’s system. The hospital contacted police, who referred the case to the sheriff’s office. The sheriff’s office investigated and arrested Carroll.
Carroll admitted to using methamphetamines and opiates in front of her child. The boy has received medical attention and is in the temporary custody of his grandmother.
My gut feeling is that Caroll is probably a decent mother with a very serious drug problem. After all, she did go to the hospital when her son got sick. I just hope that her arrest will help her seek treatment so she can get her son back.
9 opinions for Mom Trina Rae Carroll Arrested for Abuse when Meth Found in Her Toddler Son
rockdoll_71
May 5, 2008 at 10:19 am
It’s so sad that there are so many people, especially mothers, who have serious drug problems. I’m glad to know that the child didn’t die and was treated. Hopefully, his mother will get the help that she needs and be a better mother to her son.
Ihavekidstoo
May 5, 2008 at 10:24 am
OK, Ann-Marie usually I agree with your comments/posts, but I have to dissent on this one. I don’t believe “decent mothers” do drugs in front of their children. In fact, I don’t believe decent mothers use illegal drugs at all.
I really do understand the nature of addiction. I am a food addict and have battled my weight, and my addiction for my entire adult life. I finally have my addiction under control and have lost 100 pounds in the past year. You know what the catalyst was for me to really get help and make a life change? The birth of my son. I decided I wanted to be around to watch him grow up and I did NOT want to pass my food addiction on to him.
So I understand addiction, truly. What I DON’T understand is a “mother” who cannot put her child ahead of her addiction.
There are plenty of posters on this forum who admit to having drank to excess, smoked pot and taken other drugs, and generally living wild lifestyles, but they left all that behind when they had children. They realized it was time to grow up and put someone else before themselves and their desires. Those people are “decent parents,” NOT a woman who continues to expose her child to the dangers of her addiction.
candytree
May 6, 2008 at 7:39 am
i have to respectfully disagree with this. food “addiction” is not even in the same ballpark as drug addiction. for the record, i am horribly overweight as well but i wouldnt compare my loving to eat all the time to someone with a physical addiction to drugs.
pennysue
May 6, 2008 at 7:58 am
Addictions aren’t diseases, they are choices. You can either choose to stop or shoose to be an addict. People say all the time ” I don’t want to be like this”, well don’t then. You have free choice, unlike the children who’s lives your messing up. Cancer is a disease, drugs are a choice.
Ihavekidstoo
May 6, 2008 at 8:50 am
Candytree, food is definitely an addiction and a more insidious one than drugs in MANY ways. As a food addict, I MUST indulge my addiction daily in order to live. Drug addicts and alcoholics, however, do not biologically require the substances they are addicted to in order to survive. I used to think the same thing - that my problem was just that I liked to eat. But once I finally admitted to myself that this was one aspect of my life I couldn’t control on my own, I realized it truly is an addiction.
It’s definitely “in the same ballpark” as drug addiction - both addictions result in the destruction of lives (of both the addict and those who love him), cause horrible health problems and cost our country billions of dollars every year dealing with people who have these addictions. The only differences that I can see are that it’s still legal to be a food addict (so you don’t have the crime associated with food addiction that you do with drug addiction), and that drug addicts get more money from the insurance industry to pursue rehab for their problems, while fat people are, frankly, on our own when it comes to paying for treatment.
Pennysue is also right. Addictions aren’t diseases, they are psychologically based compulsions and as such, we have the ability to choose to do something about them. And that’s the point I’m making about the woman in this article. If she makes the choice to continue indulging her addiction over the welfare of her child, then she’s not a very good mother and she deserves to have her child taken away from her.
momof2grannyto1
May 6, 2008 at 6:19 pm
No disrespect intended, but a food addiction is not the same as drug addiction, in most cases. Depending upon the drug a person is addicted to, the addiction becomes a physical dependency upon a certain amount of the drug per day. If a heroin addict does not use the drug, they suffer from violent physical as well as psychological withdrawals. Same for narcotics and alcohol.
That said, food can certainly be an addiction. Any substance we voluntarily ingest can become an addiction, whether the addiction be phyiscal, psychological or both.
Ihavekidstoo, Congrats!! Way to go! I’ve lost a fair bit of weight myself in the past 18 months and offer you my heartfelt good wishes. This kind of weight loss ain’t for wimps.
Thank God, not another dead baby. The mom in the story has a good motivation for success. I hope she is able to overcome the craving for meth to become the best parent she can be.
No, I am not a drug addict. I’ve had some folks who I was close to who were.
rockxaction
May 7, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Drug addicts and alcoholics, however, do not biologically require the substances they are addicted to in order to survive.
So withdrawal symptoms definitely have never killed the cold-turkey alcoholic or drug user? Not to sound snarky, but it seems to me you don’t understand the nature of addiction in the slightest, Ihavekidstoo.
donnam
May 8, 2008 at 3:27 pm
What a mom,and WTF was she thinking?! Oh yeah drug addicts never think about anything……geesh. Whatever happened to filling your kids with Ice Cream and good old fashioned sugar? I think her drug problem has definately gotten outta hand. Geesh…I mean come on couldn’t she at least halfway raise the kid before she slipped into this nasty habit?
umi
May 9, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Actually there are observable abnormalities in the brains of drug addicts, so that’s not really a choice. It’s a disease. In fact, scientists have come close to isolating specific genes that are thought to make people more susceptible to substance addiction. Perhaps the choice lies in whether or not to use the drugs in the first place. For people who are more liable to become addicts, there’s no difference between use and abuse because it takes way less effort for them to become dependent than it does for a normal person.
With something like meth, which is extremely addictive regardless of genetics, I wish people would just never touch it. Once you get addicted to that (which doesn’t take very long) you’re going to be struggling all your life to beat it, or you’re going to give in to it and eventually die. I’ve seen some pretty sad addiction sagas in my life, and it breaks my heart every time…especially when kids are involved. I hope this woman can get clean and stay clean for the sake of her son.
You must log in to post a comment.