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Authorities arrested a 3-year-old girl's mother and her boyfriend after the girl drowned in the New River while the pair was under the influence of meth, according to Wythe County Sheriff Keith Dunagan.

Josie Burleson was found dead in the New River just after 1 a.m. Wednesday after authorities say her mother, Kimberly Moore, and boyfriend, Adrian Puckett, reported her missing.

Moore and Puckett told authorities that Burleson was playing near the New River trail outside of their rental property when she wandered off.

Moore and Puckett have been charged with reckless endangerment. The sheriff said more charges could be pending.

Moore has previous felony charges for grand larceny and possession of a controlled substance.

"In this case, the parents of the child didn't pay attention and now they lost their child. The reason they weren't paying attention is because they were under the influence of methamphetamine," said Dunagan. "That's why this child is deceased now."

Dunagan was unsure if Puckett is Burleson's father.

"I believe that the child would be alive today if the adults that were supposed to be supervising her weren't high," said Dunagan.

Moore and Puckett have been arrested and are being held at the New River Regional Jail.
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A grand jury Tuesday formally charged the mother of a three-year-old girl who died in Wythe County last year with two charges of felony child endangerment. The mother’s boyfriend was also formally charged Tuesday.

Josie Burleson was last seen by the New River Trail off Bertha Farms Road in Wythe County in July. Police say the search took more than five and a half hours, and the body was found 100 yards downstream of where law enforcement found child footprints at the New River.

The Wythe County Sheriff’s Office said at the time that Josie’s mother, Kimberly Moore, and her boyfriend Adrian Neil Puckett, were under the influence of drugs when the 3-year-old went missing.
 
A judge gave Kimberly Dawn Moore two years in jail on Thursday morning, but he told her that her punishment would last a lifetime.

Convicted of child neglect last August in her 3-year-old daughter’s 2019 accidental drowning and home living conditions, the 47-year-old Barren Springs woman appeared in Wythe County Circuit Court via video for sentencing.

Prosecutor Meghan Lackey said victim Josie Burleson was five weeks away from her fourth birthday when she died in the New River.

Searchers found the girl’s body in the water after Moore and her then boyfriend, who both tested positive for methamphetamine use, reported her missing.

On Thursday, Lackey said Moore continued to use drugs during her brief release on bond after her arrest. Moore, however, has been back in the New River Jail since October 2019.

Lackey also reminded Judge Josiah Showalter Jr. of his disgust at trial when looking at photographs of Burleson’s deplorable living conditions, including a feces-filled chamber pot in her room, which was sometimes boarded up to keep her inside.

“It indicates a mother who could care less about her child,” Lackey said. “All she cared about was her next high.”
The prosecutor urged the judge to go above the maximum one-year-and-eight-month jail sentence suggested in state guidelines. She asked for “a year for every year Josie lived on this earth.”
Moore’s attorney, though, said more jail time wouldn’t bring the victim back or serve the commonwealth’s interests.

“She has taken full responsibility in my conversations with her,” Kathleen Shell said.

Shell also said a car wreck when Moore was 13 years old began her addiction to painkillers. She said Moore, who has a history of physical and mental health problems, came from a broken family and has had a series of abusive relationships.

She said Moore was “deeply” devastated over what happened to her daughter and asked the judge to stay within the guidelines.

Lackey said that Moore had a chance to get help with her substance abuse and mental health issues while on probation for a Montgomery County conviction but didn’t.

Showalter said the case was one of the saddest he’d heard in his nearly 15 years on the bench.

He said it was ironic that Moore would have a safe place to live after her release – something not afforded to her daughter.

He said Moore would have a lifetime to remember how she treated her little girl who wouldn’t be coming back.

Giving Moore two years to serve, Showalter said he deviated from the guidelines because of “the deplorable conditions that little girl was living in.” The maximum sentence was five years.
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Excuses, excuses. If you know you have a drug addiction, regardless of when or how that came to be, then you make every possible effort not to get pregnant. But, I guess, her mental health problems prevented her from making responsible choices of any kind whatsoever or even just to protect her child. I hope she does regret it every fucking day from now on.
 
The penis of a woman whose daughter drowned in the New River has been sentenced to five years in prison, with all but 90 days suspended. That will be followed by five years probation.
Adrian Puckett was arrested with Kimberly Moore after Moore’s three-year-old daughter, Josie Burleson, drowned in 2019. They were charged with child abuse after investigators say Josie disappeared from them while they were under the influence of meth.

Moore had already been sentenced to five years in prison, with three years suspended.
 
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