Drunk high dad leaves baby in oven overnight

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By Jason Kessler, CNN

March 16, 2010 9:58 p.m. EDT

Larry Long, 33, is charged with first degree wanton endangerment.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Baby's mother awoke to sound of 5-week-old's cries coming from oven
• Larry Long smoked marijuana at work, drank whiskey at home night before, police say
• Psychiatric facility alerted authorities after Long, 33, contacted mental health hot line
• Emergency crews transported infant to hospital, where he was found to be unharmed

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• Kentucky
  
• Crime and Law
  
• Liquor and Spirits
  

(CNN) -- A Kentucky man high on marijuana and drunk on whiskey put his 5-week-old son in the oven Sunday and left him there overnight, police said.

The oven door was slightly ajar, and the oven was not turned on.

After smoking marijuana at the restaurant where he works as a cook, Larry Long, 33, returned home to share a fifth of whiskey with the baby's mother, Brandy Hatton, McCracken County Sheriff Jon Hayden said in a statement.

Hatton had four or five shots and went to bed while Long finished the bottle, Hayden said.

At 5:30 the next morning, Hatton awoke to the sound of the baby's cries coming from the oven. He had been in it for several hours, police said.

Emergency crews responding to the scene transported the infant to a local hospital, where he was found to be unharmed.

The incident was reported to authorities by a psychiatric facility that Long turned to when he learned what he had done, officials said.

"He actually called a mental health crisis line immediately thereafter and told them that he had done this. And they contacted us," Hayden said.

Police arrested Long and charged him with first degree wanton endangerment. He is being held on bail of $10,000.

Long blamed his actions on the marijuana, which he believes was laced with a hallucinatory agent, officials said.

Authorities have removed the baby from its mother's care and awarded emergency custody to members of her family.

[Aislinn]

 Yeah, blame the booze and the MJ. I have been pretty high and pretty drunk before and putting a baby in an oven never occurred to me. This guy is a psycho. End of story. lol

[Zoeysmom09]

What!?! Sounds like something you would hear in a old wives tale

[Plus-size-mommy]

Thank God he didn't turn the oven on, that is what I thought I was going to read.

[BlessedToBMommy]

yep until you "good" supplier laces it.... I cant wait until some of you get busted for pot, really I cant.

Quoting Aislinn:

 Yeah, blame the booze and the MJ. I have been pretty high and pretty drunk before and putting a baby in an oven never occurred to me. This guy is a psycho. End of story. lol

[DisneyMama409]

Thank God that oven was not turned on. I could not even imagine. Im tearing up just thinking about it .

[Chick]

I was so scared to click on this, so scared I was going to read the oven was on.  I was prepared to burst into tears. That would have had me crying all day. Thank GOD the baby is ok.

[JBDslittlemam08]

 Wow no matter how messed up you are you don't bring your child in on it!! I've been drunk when my DS was upstairs asleep for the night and my DH was sober. Wow that is insane!

[Lizzie1984]

I agree with you all the way! It was not the alchohol or the MJ!

Quoting Aislinn:

 Yeah, blame the booze and the MJ. I have been pretty high and pretty drunk before and putting a baby in an oven never occurred to me. This guy is a psycho. End of story. lol

[katiebug840204]

WOW

[StarSterling]

I second this.

Quoting BlessedToBMommy:

yep until you "good" supplier laces it.... I cant wait until some of you get busted for pot, really I cant.

Quoting Aislinn:

 Yeah, blame the booze and the MJ. I have been pretty high and pretty drunk before and putting a baby in an oven never occurred to me. This guy is a psycho. End of story. lol