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Pizza delivery driver finds child, 3, unattended

 
Published March 23, 2015

WESLEY CHAPEL — A 21-year-old woman faces child neglect and drug charges after a pizza delivery driver found a 3-year-old child clad only in a diaper who had wandered from the woman's home Sunday night.

Hayleigh Lyn Normandin of 1431 Baythorn Dr. also is charged with battery on law enforcement officer after she twice kicked a deputy trying to arrest her, the Pasco Sheriff's Office said.

The Hungry Howie's driver, who was not identified, told deputies the child opened the door of the Meadow Pointe home and walked outside just before 9 p.m. Sunday. The driver said she did not see an adult, did not receive a response when she announced "pizza delivery'' and eventually entered the home because she was worried about the child's wellbeing.

Inside, she found a woman lying unconscious on a bed and said she could not rouse her when she knocked on the open bedroom door and again announced the pizza had arrived.

The driver called her store and an employee there contacted the Sheriff's Office. Deputies arrived and entered the house to do a welfare check and found narcotics paraphernalia and a prescription pill bottle on the kitchen counter. When deputies woke up Normandin, an arrest report said, she didn't inquire about the child, but instead asked officers, "What the f--- are you doing in my house?''

"Thank God that little kid didn't take those pills,'' said Sheriff Chris Nocco, who said deputies believe the home's occupants also were starting to build a marijuana grow house on the premises.

The child was taken into protective custody, said Nocco. Authorities did not identify the child's gender or if Normandin and the child were related. An arrest report labeled Normandin as the child's caregiver.

Normandin was being held in the Land O'Lakes Detention Center Monday night with bail set at $30,150. She was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell or manufacture, three counts of drug possession and child neglect.

Normandin also was charged with tampering with evidence after she told a deputy she wasn't trying to kick him during the arrest, but instead was trying to break her cell phone.