Woman Charged with Injuring Her Unborn Child
By: Victor Sotelo
Updated: April 11, 2012
Juanita Elkins is in the Taylor County Jail on a $25,000 bond charged with injury to a child.
According to a complaint filed on Elkins, she knowingly engaged in conduct that placed her unborn child in imminent danger of death, bodily injury or physical mental impairment by doing meth when she was pregnant.
When her baby was born in October of last year, he tested positive for meth, and she admitted to using while pregnant.
According the Taylor County Sheriff's Department, better communication between medical staff and investigators led to the filling of the charge.
Sources say not many of these cases are seen.






