Blountstown man charged with child abuse for encouraging girl to use meth
A 20-year-old Blountstown man is being held without bond on a charge of child abuse after he allegedly encouraged a teenage girl to use methamphetamine.
Christopher Melton was arrested June 26.
According to the Blountstown Police Department investigation, the mother of a juvenile girl reported that her daughter had been pressured to inhale methamphetamine by Melton while she was spending the night at a friend’s home.
She took the girl to the hospital the next day, where she tested positive for amphetamines.
In a recorded statement, the girl said Melton brought meth to a Mayo Street residence. When the person who had accompanied Melton went to bed, Melton pulled out a white powder he told her was meth. He poured out some of the drug and arranged it into two lines and, after several attempts, convinced her to snort it.
An officer who went to Melton’s home to speak with him reported that he appeared “very agitated and under the influence of some illegal narcotics.”
Melton was taken into custody and asked to give a statement. “He was unable to complete a fluid thought before he began rambling off onto another subject,” the police report noted.
He was then booked into the county jail.
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