A Lexington County family wants answers concerning a young child's death. It stems from a weekend arrest Saturday night involving a 22-year-old Cayce woman accused of smoking marijuana. Her 9-month-old son was placed in DSS care and less than 24-hours later he's died.
Katrina Jivers and her family wanted to get an early start on spring cleaning. Since her house is where everyone hangs out, Jivers fumigates it every year. While the fumes got rid of the bugs, the family spent Friday night in a hotel. Early Saturday morning Jivers says she went to the bathroom and smoked a joint then went back to bed. Meanwhile someone complained to police about marijuana smoke coming from Jivers room.
Here's where the story gets confusing. She says, "It was 8:30 when I smoked. When they got there it was 4:30. They said there was a thick cloud of smoke but they never complained about that. All they did was pick up a blunt roach and I didn't even see that. I had my back to him."
Jivers says the officers never knocked. They just came in and she woke up to one of them holding a gun to her face. But Cayce Police Lt. Jeffrey Simmons tells a different story.
He says, "They did knock on the door. She answered the door and let them in."
After finding some marijuana police arrested Jivers and had paramedics taker her 9-month-old son to the hospital.
Police say the boys blood work showed traces of marijuana; But not enough to keep him. So the hospital released him to social servcies. The child died before his mother was released from jail.
Court documents say the boy died from heart problems. Jivers also had to surrender her two-year-old daughter to DSS. The family is now working with an attorney to fight this. WACH FOX News will continue to follow this story.
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