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2/12/2016
By Tom Marshall
Senior Advocate writer
Chasity Lewis, the mother alleged to have given her child suboxone to stop crying, is now being held in jail without bond.
Feb. 2, Montgomery County Circuit Judge Beth Maze granted Lewis a $25,000 surety bond so she could stay with her grandmother under house arrest.
Instead, a man signed Lewis out on the surety bond and she never made it to her grandmother’s, Maze told attorneys in the case during a court appearance Tuesday.
Lewis, 29, was arrested last Friday by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office for an alleged bond violation. When she was booked into the Montgomery County Regional Jail she reportedly tested positive for opiates.
For those reasons, Maze announced Tuesday that Lewis’ bond was being revoked and she will be held without bond from now on.
An additional charge of contempt of court has been filed against Lewis.
She had been allowed out under bond the previous week with stipulations that she have no contact with children, remain drug and alcohol free, submit to random drug tests, commit no new offenses and abide by an 8 p.m. curfew.
Her attorney, Jennifer Cox, argued during a bond hearing that she never intended to harm her child.
Authorities allege that Lewis gave her 5-day-old baby suboxone for withdrawal symptoms when it would not quit crying. The child was reportedly born addicted to drugs.
When the baby failed to wake up after several hours, Lewis’ mother reportedly forced her to take the child to the hospital Nov. 22. The child is now doing well, authorities said. It is one of six belonging to Lewis in the custody of her mother.
Lewis is scheduled to go on trial June 8.
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