Overview
- Deputies say a six-year-old boy with autism jumped from a second-story window at the Unity Terrace apartment complex and was taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital for evaluation on Monday.
- Court records show the child’s hospital test the next day detected cocaine, which led investigators to obtain a search warrant for the family’s apartment.
- Police reported finding a white powdery substance, a plate and a 'tooter' during the search, and say the boy’s mother, Stevie Thibodeaux, admitted to using cocaine and leaving the plate in a closet.
- Thibodeaux was arrested and charged with felony child neglect creating a risk of serious injury or death, held in the North Central Regional Jail on a $5,000 bond with no plea reported.
- Officers noted a missing window screen and the mother told police she had childproof door locks and was asleep when the boy left the unit; the child’s current condition and any child-welfare actions have not been publicly disclosed.