The woman allegedly said she was on drugs when she gave the child to a man who “could” be the father of the girl in 2022; she hasn’t seen either of them since.
An Oklahoma woman has been arrested and charged with child abandonment, after she allegedly gave up her daughter to a drug dealer more than two years ago.
The charges were brought against Ashley Rowland, 39, last week in the city of Moore. According to a probable cause affidavit filed November 1, via KOCO , the investigation into Rowland began in April 2023, when the Oklahoma Department of Human Services tried to obtain custody of the child.
At the time, they couldn’t locate her — with Rowland allegedly telling them the girl, who was 2, was “with her father in Georgia.” That, per authorities, wasn’t true … as the mother allegedly admitted to police that she gave the girl to a man she bought meth from named Carlos.
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Rowland then allegedly told police that Carlos could be the girl’s father, though she wasn’t certain — adding that she hadn’t seen either of them since April 2022 and that he planned to go to Mexico.