Lawsuit alleges false imprisonment after arrest for endangering fetus that didn't exist. Another Alabama woman has been jailed for using drugs while pregnant. But this time there's a twist: she wasn't actually pregnant. Her young child merely told a social worker that she was, according to the woman's lawsuit against local law enforcement in Etowah County.
There's an easy way to tell if someone is pregnant, of course, but authorities reportedly failed to administer a pregnancy test before booking Stacey Freeman into jail for about one and a half days. "Freeman offered to take a pregnancy test and Etowah County Department of Human Resources employees entered an order for one," according to AL.com. "However, she never took the test and Etowah County Sheriff Investigator Brandi Fuller issued a warrant for her arrest, according to the lawsuit."
