YouTube Video Of Toddler On Ecstasy?

(AP)  The FBI is helping authorities in Houston see if any crime was committed when a group of young women videotaped themselves laughing at a toddler and joking that the child had taken Ecstasy. It's unclear whether the tot had actually been given the drug, authorities said.

The video appeared on YouTube.com before being removed and is on other Web sites.

The young women told an investigator that they got bored during a return trip from Padre Island and were playing with the little girl, who was following instructions to roll her eyes back, said Lt. John Martin, a spokesman with the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

The video, which runs 2 minutes, 28 seconds, was taken in a van and shows a girl who appears to be about 2 years old. As the young women tease her, the toddler rolls her eyes back until only the whites show.

Some of the women can be heard laughing and seeming to suggest that Ecstasy might be responsible for the child's behavior. It also shows an infant being handed around in the back seat.

"Cookie, stop rolling, girl. ... You shouldn't have popped no X," says one of the young women, as she squeezes the little girl's cheeks and taps her on her head, telling her to stop rolling her eyes. "X" is a slang term for Ecstasy.

In addition to the two children, there were seven people in the van — the toddler's 21-year-old mother, two other adults and four teenage girls under 17, he said. All are from Houston, and no charges have been filed.

Area authorities became involved after clues in the video indicated it had been filmed in Texas. A map of Jackson County can be seen in the video, and an announcer for a Christian radio station in Houston can be heard in the background.

[emeraldt19]

I am 22 years old. I am a single mom of a 2 year old boy and I will tell you right now that a 2 year generally does not sit and listen to everything you tell them to do. A 2 year old will not sit still on the floor and roll his or her eyes in the back of his or her head over and over again. he or she will get bored and frustrated and cry or yell. I dont believe that there is any way a mother could or WOULD put her child up to this. Needless to say if she did... that's pathetic. If you are bored on a ride home with a toddler you sing a childs song, you play a game, you do not teach them to pretend to be on drugs. And beyond that, there are 2 children in the moving car that arent strapped in. AND again, as a single mother of a 2 year old and an Aunt and Godmother of a 6 month old... you strap your kids in their seats. PERIOD.

[trmci]

Kids.. They can afford IPods and the other latest gadgets, but they cannot afford a car seat?

[retmilspouse]

Either get involved or stop your complaining.
Posted by anothersassy at 10:05 PM : Jul 12, 2007

Some of us are involved, that gives us the right to complain. Since you are so critical why don't you give your spare time a reality check. And BTW these comments are what this board is about. Get off here if you don't like it.

[retmilspouse]

your guessing would be best utilized in a game of sharades.
Posted by bobnjersey at 11:44 AM : Jul 12, 2007

Learn to spell.

[retmilspouse]

am so sorry that you have no idea what my job entails & I wouldn't even try to imagine what your job entails. It just again shows, stupid people making sweeping statements about something they know nothing about. And, the last thing I am worried about is how a little recreational drugs in my youth will suddenly ruin my health 20 years later.
Posted by genghis007 at 07:46 PM : Jul 11, 2007

And this person claims to be some uppper smuck in a "billion dollar insurance company"? Which no one here believes. Makes the point that it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think that you are stupid and not opening it up and proving it.

[blue_eyes68]

In the picture in the article above her eyes are rolled back and you can only see the whites of her eyes. wonder if they were seat belted seeing as she was not in car seat (should be at that age), not to mention the infant being passed around and not restrained in carseat

[anothersassy]

I am totaly amazed at the reactions of the people who are posting. I do agree that its a horrible thing if and I do mean IF the child was really druged. It is up to the police and criminal justice system to determine. What really makes me shake my head is the way that everyone is carrying on in here, if your that passionate about child abuse and neglect then get up and get envolved within your own communities...do something about it. If everyeone used their complaining in a productive way then maybe more would be done about things and programs could be in place to help educate young mothers and help lower the abuse rate in our country. Either get involved or stop your complaining.

[gmond]

Watch the video. She wasn't on any drugs, just a normal little girl trying to make everyone laugh and get attention. And in no scene did her eyes roll back till only the whites showed.

[jimibear]

http://www.mukamo.com/?p=1064

That's a link for the video. There's nothing going on in it but a kid making silly faces and her siblings making goofy comments about it.

What a tempest in a teapot.

[jimibear]

jvargas1960, I am talking to you, by the way. You sound like a complete moron; one of the "professionally offended" who have nothing better to do but get their panties in a wad over the actions of people they have never met and demand action by the authorities.

The idea that you think leaving a child in the care of a 17-year-old for "well over two minutes" is child endangerment would tend to indicate that any children you may raise will turn out to be agoraphobic homosexual paranoids with severe phobias toward more or less anything.

In short, shut up.