Mom's DWI Crash Injures Three-Year-Old Daughter

2009_04_handcuffs.jpg Early Saturday morning, Suffolk County police arrested a woman who, while traveling north on East Manor Drive (in Manorville), drove into the southbound lane and crashed into an oncoming pickup truck. Newsday reports that Ebony Herrera was "apparently driving drunk and high" on marijuana at the time—and her three-year-old daughter Johnnaisa Harvey was in the backseat. Herrera and the pickup's driver were treated and released for their injuries, but little Johnnaisa remains in critical condition with brain swelling after surgery. Herrera was arraigned yesterday and said, sobbing, "I'm really sorry what happened to my baby," and is being held on $250,000 bail. She was charged with child endangerment and DWI; she pleaded not guilty, though she reportedly told investigators she drank and smoked pot about an hour before the crash. Her daughter, who still hasn't regained consciousness, was transferred to Stony Brook Hospital.

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I hope she had a happy Mother's Day.

You lost me there. Johnnaisa Harvey is the little girl in the back seat? And her mother is? Ebony Herrera?

What is the name of the driver of the other vehicle?

The Newsday article says the truck's driver is Justin Topping.

Channel 4 aired a priceless perp walk clip where she tells the camera:

"I swear to god if I knew I was gonna fall asleep I wouldn't have gotten on that highway."

Unfortunately it's not online.

Santa Claus says "ho ho ho."

Just one-third of that perfectly describes this woman.

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Ebony Herrera?
Johnnaisa?

All I need to know that the animals should have never been given rights, and they can't handle being away from the cotton field.

Weak. I give your attempt at trolling only 1 out of a possible ten. For you to have reached even three, you would have had to mention something about beans or boats*.

This is New York, there is no excuse not to know which stereotypes go with which names.

*When in doubt, grasshopper, go with the ethnicity indicated by the parent's name, not the child's.

Yeah, I mean, even if it were the right ethnicity... a cotton field comment? What is this guy like 130 years old?

Legalize marijuana. Criminalize the reckless procreation of idiots.

You didn't need to tell su it was Suffolk County. Stoned mom driving, de rigueur.

You didn't need to tell us it was Suffolk County. Stoned mom driving, de rigueur.

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