Police: Millbrook mother arrested after newborn baby tests positive for cocaine

Millbrook police say they’ve taken a woman into custody after her newborn baby tested positive for cocaine.

Millbrook Police Chief P.K. Johnson says the baby was born at Jackson Hospital on Saturday, Oct. 21.

Johnson says the baby’s mother, identified as 30-year-old Miriam Abram of Millbrook, allegedly used cocaine at a home in the city before giving birth.

Johnson says Abram had been arrested by Millbrook detectives in December 2020 and was charged with chemical endangerment of a child under similar circumstances. He says Abram failed to appear in Elmore County Circuit Court on that charge and had been wanted on a felony failure to appear warrant in that case.

On Monday, October 23, Johnson says Abram was discharged from Jackson Hospital and was taken into custody on the existing failure to appear warrant. She was placed in the Elmore
County Jail.  She is also facing a chemical endangerment of a child charge.

“After speaking with our investigators, it is my understanding that we’ve petitioned the Elmore County District Attorney’s Office assistance in revoking Abram’s bond on the original 2020
charge of chemical endangerment of a child. A motion was filed in court and has been granted, which means that the offender will be held without bond,” Johnson said.

Johnson says the Alabama Department of Human Resources have been contacted with regard to this case and will take steps to ensure the safety and welfare of the infant child.