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Mom Found Unconscious At Home Charged With Sending Kids To School With Lice
POSTED: 5:44 pm EDT April 1,
2008
UPDATED: 8:40 pm EDT April 2,
2008
BELLE VERNON, Pa. -- Six Belle Vernon, Fayette County, children are staying with their grandmother, because police said their mother passed out from snorting drugs on Tuesday.Police said Nicole Lynn Holmes is also accused of sending two of those children to school with lice after being warned by school officials. She was arraigned at the Fayette County Prison on Wednesday afternoon.The conditions described in court documents filed by police are dramatic. They allege Holmes was discovered by a neighbor in such a drugged state that she could not be awakened.
The criminal complaint quotes the children's grandparents as saying a neighbor had to watch the children, ages 1 to 10, because Holmes had "passed out" after "snorting" three Xanax pills."There was six kids that didn't have anybody to watch that was capable to watch them," said neighbor Justina Oliveri.Oliveri took the children from their Wood Street home and called 911 after finding Holmes and two others unconscious."I knew it was wrong, because I couldn't wake her up," said Oliveri. "We actually called police and an ambulance, because I didn't know if she wasn't waking up.""We charged her this morning with endangering the welfare of children for each one of the children," said Chief John Hartman of the Southwest Regional Police Department.As it turned out, Washington Township police were already charging her with endangerment for repeatedly sending two of her children to school with head lice. Court records show that the Belle Vernon Area School District contacted police, charging that Holmes had ignored several warnings about the children's lice infestation."The kids need to go somewhere," said Oliveri. "They didn't ask for none of that. They needed to go somewhere that could take care of them."Holmes' parents, Nancy and Dave Rice, have custody of the children for now."I'm shifting around my life, but we'll make it work," said Nancy Rice. "I love my grandkids. I love my kids. We'll make it work."
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