KY Mother Blames Child Endangerment Charges On Bath Salts She Snorted

Cynthia Palmer

CALVERT CITY, Ky. (AP) - A mother charged with endangering her children says she was wandering along a western Kentucky interstate with them after snorting bath salts.

Kentucky State Police say they found a 2-year-old boy with a head injury lying on the inside edge of I-24 in Marshall County and his mother carrying a 5-year-old child in the median.

Police say 29-year-old Cynthia Palmer told officers she had been snorting bath salts and began to hallucinate while driving from the Tennessee side of Fort Campbell on Monday night. Police say she stopped and attempted to carry both children across the roadway, but dropped the younger child and left him.