The Daily Independent
CATLETTSBURG A 33-year-old woman who allegedly did not notice her son jump out of the window of a moving car March 24 has been indicted by a Boyd County grand jury.
Meghan Lara, 33, of Ashland, was indicted on a sole count of first-degree criminal abuse of a child under the age of 12, a class C felony punishable with between five and 10 years in prison. Lara has been held in the Boyd County Detention Center since the day of the incident.
Bond has been set at $75,000.
At about 10 minutes before 6 a.m. on March 24, Laraâs son was found wandering Ky. 716 with cuts on his face. Described as developmentally disabled, the boy was found shoeless by a Kentucky Power worker, according to Sheriff Bobby Jack Woods.
While children were searching for Easter eggs over the weekend, local law enforcement was busy searching for drugs and bench warrants, jail records show ââespecially in Boyd and at the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center, records show.
The following people were locked up over the weekend. Anyone named in the lock-ups should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Boyd County Detention Center
⢠April D. Combs, 38, of Hazard, was booked Friday as a federal inmate on a first-degree promotion of contraband charge.
⢠Autumn A. Wallace, 20, of Ashland, was booked Friday on a harassing communications charge.
⢠John M. Kouns, 43, of Flatwoods, was booked Friday on a two probation violations and charges of first-offense simple possession of meth and shoplifting less than $500 in value.
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