Just Another Sad Drug Tale

Daisha Sue Clark was arrested in May 2015 in Yorktown in the USA, after police saw her reverse her vehicle into a parked jeep.

 The 24 year old was also driving naked, and reportedly with a child in the car (although the child wasn't with her when she was arrested). 

The police had received an emergency call reporting a woman driving around naked with a child .... The caller had said that Ms Clark had left her child alone in the car, while she had been in a house “sleeping with a male”.

The caller had banged on the house door to confront her about the child in the car, and that's when Ms Clark had run out of the building naked, and jumped in to the car and driven off. Later it emerged that Ms Clark’s mother said that she had been contacted by an onlooker, and that she “took the child out of the car” because of fears over its safety. Ms Clark had no idea where the child was when the police arrested her.

Ms Clark who was nearly twice the legal drink drive limit, was charged with with driving while intoxicated, neglect of a dependent and driving while suspended, and placed in the Delaware County jail under a $15,000 bond. She later appeared in Muncie City Court on a number of other offences stemming from criminal activities, with a trial on June 9th 2015 for burglary and theft charges filed October 2014, as well as two theft charges, filed in April and May of2015.

Sadly, for the child this wasn't the end of this drug addled woman's issues ... in 2017 on West Adaline Road in Yorktown, where the now 26-year-old Daisha Sue Clark had been staying with a relative. She was doing so while she was on house arrest, with a tracking bracelet on her ankle. Clark admitted to police that she found her son near her bedroom, with plastic in his mouth and a powdery substance on his face.

A cousin of Clark's told police, her 16 month old boy then got sick and quit breathing. Even after the child got sick, Clark did not want him to go to the hospital, insisting that the little boy had only bitten on a 'bottle of bug spray'. Clark told police officers a friend – “also a drug addict,” the police noted – assured her the child would be fine ... her cousin thankfully thought otherwise and took the child to hospital anyway.

Court documents, showed that hospital staff at IU Ball Memorial Hospital used Narcan, a drug on the child, that's used on people who have overdosed on opioids such as heroin, and the little boy later revived and recovered. Hospital officials say the child was later released. The police also found a syringe in Clark's bedroom filled with brown liquid, along with two burnt spoons with white residue on them.

Daisha Sue Clark had a lengthy criminal history in Shelby County, with several convictions involving drug use. Clark now faced charges of neglect of a dependent, possession of a syringe and possession of drug paraphernalia ..... She was being held under a $10,000 bond.

Amazingly none of her previous charges had yet been to court so she still faced several charges pending in Delaware Circuit Court 5 cases – burglary and theft filed in August 2014; driving while intoxicated, neglect of a dependent and driving while suspended filed in July 2015, and theft filed in July 2015. (The 2015 cases were recently transferred from Muncie City Court).

Following this latest incident she had apparently decided to enter guilty pleas in all the pending cases and has also been accepted into the county’s forensic drug treatment program. She hasn't got any news reports since then, so hopefully has cleaned up her act and is a good mom. But her sad little drug story just illustrates that drugs are wrecking many parts of the world, and the West is not any better off.