Police: Meth-smoking mother admitted she no longer wanted child, arrested on warrant

SEATTLE — Seattle police officers who responded to a call for a welfare check on a woman and her baby found a woman who admitted to using drugs and said she no longer wanted her child, according to a Seattle Police Department significant incident report.

At 9:17 a.m. on Wednesday, officers were dispatched to a call for a welfare check on a baby and a woman. The caller said the woman was going to drop her 3-month-old baby off somewhere.

Officers said the woman admitted to earlier smoking methamphetamine in the presence of the child. She also admitted to not wanting the child anymore and said she was willing to drop the baby off somewhere, according to the report.

Officers determined the mother was not fit to care for her child and was an immediate danger to the baby.

The child was taken into custody without a court order and Child Protective Services was called.

Police later found the woman had a warrant out of Seattle for kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, second-degree robbery and motor vehicle theft.

She was arrested and booked into the King County Jail.

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