Sprigg v. Lyles

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a newborn child with a positive toxicology screen is per se an abused child for purposes of R.C. 2151.031(D
• reasoning that a test confirming the presence of illegal drugs in an infant’s system at birth demonstrates that the child suffered a physical injury caused by the mother
• disagreeing with mother’s framing of issue and finding that “the issue is not whether a fetus is a child but rather whether the plain language of [the child abuse statute] applies to Lorenzo and the facts of this case”
• mother’s prenatal drug use can lead to an adjudication of the newborn child as abused
• “When a newborn child’s toxicology screen yields a positive result for an illegal drug due to prenatal maternal drug abuse, the newborn is, for purposes of R.C. 2151.031(D), per se an abused child.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).