McALESTER —
A Tulsa woman pleaded no contest Jan. 24 in Pittsburg County District Court to a child abuse by injury charge and sentencing was deferred for three years.
In September, authorities found Maggie Mae Hopkins, 27, carrying a baby on a street in McAlester while she was intoxicated, according to court reports.
McAlester Police Officer Joe Calistro said this in an affidavit: “When I arrived, I observed a female sitting on the curb, who was later identified as Maggie Hopkins."
The officer also saw another woman on scene who was holding a small child and who was accompanied by her boyfriend, according to the report.
The couple had been driving down the road when they happened upon a woman, the affidavit continues. “They saw Maggie walking west on Cherokee from Main down the middle of the road carrying a car seat with a small child in it. She (said) Maggie was stumbling, as if she was drunk, and Maggie ... at times, looked as if she was dragging the car seat.”
The couple who stopped to help remained on the scene, taking care of the baby, while the officer arrested Hopkins and contacted the Department of Human Services to determine if the one-year-old could be released to his grandmother.
“I advised dispatch to contact DHS,” Calistro’s report states. “The child ... had a soiled diaper and he was dirty. Maggie didn’t have any diapers, food or a change of clothes with her.”
Once Calistro received word that the child could be released to his grandmother, she immediately left Tulsa to come to McAlester and pick up the baby, the report states. Calistro then took the young boy to the police station, where a DHS worker brought him some clothes and a firefighter gave him a bath before his grandma arrived to take him home.
Contact Rachel Petersen at rpetersen@mcalesternews.com.
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