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Mother Arrested After Child Found Wandering

Posted at 5:33 AM, Jul 06, 2018
and last updated 2018-07-06 05:33:44-04

LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18)– A mother was arrested Thursday after sheriff’s officials say her small child was found wandering.

It happened around 11:50 a.m. off Richland Drive.

Deputies were notified by a social worker (who was in the area on an unrelated complaint ) that had found a 2-year-old child wandering outside a residence wearing a top and nothing else, and was unsupervised.

Deputies say when they arrived at the scene they noticed the child’s hands were covered in paint and she had a severe bruise on her left eye.

The child’s mother was found in a residence asleep and was allegedly unaware that the child had exited the residence.

19-year-old Bailey Karr, of Lily, was arrested and charged with first-degree criminal abuse. 

Social Services assisted the sheriff’s office on their investigation.