Isabella was arrested and later she tested positive for methadone, alcohol, and THC.
"A child charge." "It's a charge. I want to be frank with you. Okay. Um, I don't think you have any previous history of this."
"No, I just fell asleep."
"Um, like you're going to work with DCF for a parenting plan. State attorney is going to review everything. The judge has to review everything. So again, you're innocent till proven guilty. Um,."
"And then if If it is proven guilty that I fell asleep." "Even if it's proven guilty, doesn't mean you're to be denied your child or anything like that. Um,." "What about my business? When people look me up, they're going to see I'm a I'm a child."
"That's how I feed my child. The doors were locked." "Again, you're you're aware that your child's been opening."
"212 status check. Um, you live near a water hazard. You live on a second-story fall hazard and Clubhouse Drive is right there. Um, and your kids in diapers, too. Like I got a four-year-old and I don't know what it is."
"And." "My son's three about to be three."
"Um, there's my four-wheel right there. I don't know what it is. I wake up like he's out of diapers. I mean, he's fully functioning, go to the bathroom on his own, everything."
"I still like wake up." "I would have." "Every four hours or so." "Yeah."
"And I just check on him because I don't know. Maybe because I do this job, but." "Um."
"I mean, we're in like a an apartment the size of like most people's room. Like it's like how how much could you really do? I thought it you know, without me." "Lucky that nothing happened to your child."
"I know. But I really do. I know." "Because if you would have fallen in that water and having been to drownings and."
"His father was hit and run when he was a year old and that could have happened too." "So again, I'm not going for the whatifs. I'm just looking at 8 and 1/2 hours and with the hazards, um, you know, I think there should have been a little bit more diligence there. Okay. I just."
"You could disagree with me."
"Yeah, I know. I just When you're exhausted, you don't really wake up in the middle of the sleep. And if you don't, it's not really your fault if you don't wake up in the middle of the sleep. The only thing that I could have really done differently, I can't help how hard I sleep, would have been to put like that door lock and possibly risk losing my apartment uh by putting another door lock up high. I can't help how hard I sleep."
"Well, and if you're taking kratom or supplements like that that uh get that, you know, mimic the effects of like a depressant or I think it is a depressant. Um, you know, those are things that you got to account for. You're going to be impaired by any kind of substance. You know, you got to if it's going to make you sleep, you need to make sure that somebody's there to take care of your child."
"It doesn't make you sleep. It usually does the opposite for me. That's why I take it so that I have the energy to go to the gym." "I do not know your specific reaction to kratom, but I know how it is often used."
"I take it so that I don't have to take prescription medication because I was diagnosed with like ADHD and stuff like that. I got you. And my genuine hope is that from here forward you can get your kid back." "I doubt it. Once they're in the system, I really doubt it."
"I'm going to try. I've been frustrated with the system before." "I do not think this means you are never going to see your kid again."
"I think I'll see him. I don't think that I'll get him back. And I don't think I'll be able to afford to anyways because I think that this is going to ruin my business and I won't be able to afford to get him back." "Do you want us to take a message or you want to call in and talk to him?"
"So right now it's not a removal." "Like him." "The what?" "Right now he is not being removed from me?"
"They're just doing a parenting plan." "Okay. And my understanding of it is like if you when you bond out, bail out, regardless of whatever happens at this trial, you you still have the right as a mother to your child. Okay? State hasn't taken that away right now or anything like that."
"Okay?" "When they talk about a parenting plan, that's just where the state works with you and with another caretaker. Um it's a parenting plan. Like your child's going to have there's a plan in place as far as the care and welfare of your child."
Isabella was arrested and charged with child neglect without great bodily harm, prompting DCF to take custody of the child. She is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.