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Police: Officers say woman intoxicated while son wandered

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June 19th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a woman was found intoxicated in her Des Moines home after her 8-year-old son wandered to a neighborhood gathering. Polk County Court records say 35-year-old Morgan Brown-Edmundson is charged with three counts of child endangerment and is scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 2nd. Neighbors called police Sunday after the boy showed up at a neighborhood gathering. He told adults there he was worried about his mom because he couldn’t awaken her. Officers found her asleep and intoxicated and a 6-year-old child and a 2-year-old passed out or sleeping. A criminal complaint says the 8-year-old told officers his mom regularly makes him and his siblings ingest sleeping pills and other medicines to make them sleep during the day.