Sunday, April 10, 2022

Kim Blalock Took Lawfully Prescribed Pain Killers During Pregnancy—And Was Charged With a Felony

Kim Blalock had just laid down after a long day's drive to Kentucky with her husband and three of their six children on Nov. 30, 2020 when her phone started buzzing. It was a call from her 16- and 17-year-old teenage sons back home at the family's house in Florence, Alabama, who hadn't wanted to come on their dad's business trip. When she picked up her phone, she knew immediately that something was wrong. "Mom, what have you done?" one of the boys asked with panic in his voice.

Seven police officers had just burst through their front door, guns drawn, looking for the boys' mother. Blalock told her sons to pass the phone to the police, but she says officers refused to speak to her. She told her clearly terrified sons to go spend the night at their grandparents. The next day, "I got up at six o'clock in the morning, and made the drive back," Blalock told me, heading straight for the police station with the intention of turning herself in for whatever crime she had committed.

But even in her wildest dreams, she could never have guessed what the supposed crime would end up being. She was floored when, after arriving at the Florence Police Department, the lead investigator on her case asked her how much heroin she had done. She told the officer she had never used the drug in her life—but she thought she knew what he might be referring to.

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