Elberta Mother Arrested

This house on Wilson Road in Elberta looks like any typical home...well kept, nicely landscaped, children's toys scattered in the front yard. But inside, investigators say a child's life was in danger. Deputies say Cathleen Moore and Jason James were using and cooking crystal meth inside the home, exposing Moore's three year old son to deadly chemicals. Both are charged with child endangerment.

"It's very volatile," says Capt. Steve Arthur with the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office. "Very dangerous, it's flammable, it could blow up, it could burn and then the child being able to access the drug and ingest it and put it in its mouth, certainly it's something we take very seriously and won't tolerate."

Carole Barr lives near Wilson Road.

"I'm appalled, I had no clue," says Barr. "That's bad, that's just uncalled for, very bad parents. I'm just...I can't believe it, it's just unbelievable that somebody would put their child in that danger."

Deputies confiscated the contraband, shut down the meth lab and took Moore and James to jail. The child is staying with a family member. The Alabama Dept. of Human Resources is investigating.