A young Pleasant Grove mother indicted earlier this year after her newborn baby girl was born addicted to heroin is pregnant again and back behind bars on another child endangerment charge. 
 
 Police today obtained a formal warrant against Alexandra Nicole Laird, 21, and a Jefferson County judge ordered her jailed without bond until the baby's birth. She is estimated to be between 18 to 20 weeks pregnant. 
 
 "I'm doing my damndest to try to prevent any further damage to this child, since it's obvious the mother doesn't seem to care,'' said Pleasant Grove police Lt. Danny Reid. 
 
 A Jefferson County grand jury on April 15 indicted Laird on the first charge. She was initially arrested May 1, 2015 and had remained free on bond since then. Laird on March 29, 2015 gave birth to a baby girl at UAB Medical West, court records show. Routine newborn testing performed on the day the baby was born turned up positive for opiates and amphetamines, both controlled substances. The baby on April 6, 2015 was transferred to Princeton Baptist Medical Center where she received treatment for the withdrawals. 
 
 In that case, Reid said Laird later admitted to detectives that she used heroin one to two times a week for at least five months of her pregnancy. Because of the severity of the baby's illness, Reid sought, and received, an enhanced charge of chemical endangerment of a child against Laird, which is a Class B felony. 
 
 Laird does not have custody of her daughter. "You won't know you've truly victimized this child until much later in life when she has trouble in school, trouble functioning,'' Reid said at the time of Laird's indictment. 
 
 She also faces an unrelated drug possession charge after she was arrested again less than two months after her daughter's birth. In that case, she and a man were pulled over during a traffic stop in Tarrant, records show. The man she was with was arrested on an outstanding warrant. A search of the vehicle turned up 38 hydrocodone pills. Neither Laird nor the man claimed ownership of those pills. 
 
 In late August, Laird was arrested again for failure to appear in court. A condition of her previous child endangerment charge required her to not commit any other crimes while out on bond, which Reid said she did when she failed to show up for a court hearing. She then went before a judge who revoked her bond and administered a court-ordered drug test, which was positive. 
 
 She was remanded to jail in the Bessemer Cutoff on Sept. 8. It was then she admitted to using heroin three times a day, Reid said, and admitted to being pregnant which authorities confirmed with a pregnancy test. 
 
 Reid went before Jefferson County Circuit Judge David Hobdy today and argued for no bond, claiming that the unborn baby's life is in danger of continued heroin exposure. 
 
 "This is a sad case, no matter how you look at it, as the mother's heroin addiction is more compelling to her than the health and welfare of this unborn child,'' Reid said. "But make no mistake, sad or not, law enforcement will hold this mother accountable and vigorously defend and protect the well being of the child, who is innocent of all of this and simply struggling for life." 
 
 Bessemer Cutoff District Attorney Bill Veitch agreed. "The whole thing is just sad,'' Veitch said. "Very sad." ||||| A young Pleasant Grove mother and heroin addict who has been at the center of debate over the care and punishment of pregnant addicts gave birth Tuesday, and now her lawyers are asking that her bond be reinstated. 
 
 Alexandra Laird, 21, was indicted in 2016 after her newborn baby girl was born addicted to heroin. Pregnant for a second time, Laird was arrested again last year after authorities say she admitted to using heroin three times a day during the most recent pregnancy. 
 
 A Jefferson County grand jury on April 15, 2016 indicted Laird on the first chemical endangerment of a child charge. She was initially arrested May 1, 2015 and had remained free on bond since then. Laird on March 29, 2015 gave birth to a baby girl at UAB Medical West, court records show. Routine newborn testing performed on the day the baby was born turned up positive for opiates and amphetamines, both controlled substances. The baby on April 6, 2015 was transferred to Princeton Baptist Medical Center where she received treatment for the withdrawals and spent one month in the Intensive Care Unit. 
 
 In that case, Pleasant Grove police Lt. Danny Reid said Laird later admitted to detectives that she used heroin one to two times a week for at least five months of her pregnancy. Because of the severity of the baby's illness, Reid sought, and received, an enhanced charge of chemical endangerment of a child against Laird, which is a Class B felony. Laird does not have custody of her daughter. 
 
 In late August 2016, Laird was arrested again for failure to appear in court. A condition of her previous child endangerment charge required her to not commit any other crimes while out on bond, which Pleasant Grove police Reid said she did when she failed to show up for a court hearing. She then went before a judge who revoked her bond and administered a court-ordered drug test, which was positive. 
 
 She was remanded to jail in the Bessemer Cutoff on Sept. 8. It was then she admitted to using heroin three times a day, Reid said, and admitted to being pregnant which authorities confirmed with a pregnancy test. Reid went before Jefferson County Circuit Judge David Hobdy and argued for no bond, claiming that the unborn baby's life is in danger of continued heroin exposure. 
 
 Jefferson County Judge David Hobdy agreed with prosecutors and police and ordered her held, but Laird's doctors at UAB Hospital decided to keep her in the hospital for the duration of her pregnancy rather than send her back to jail. 
 
 Laird's attorney, Thomas J. Huseman, on Tuesday filed a motion to reinstate bond. His request noted that Laird had been receiving Subutex prior to delivery and, if bond is granted, will remain under the care of Dr. Peter Lane, medical director of the Addiction Recovery Program at UAB, for detoxification and be housed on the psychiatric unit. 
 
 Lane, in court documents, outlined his post-partum plan for Laird. He said she would be detoxified from the Subutex, and once that process is complete, she will move to the Fellowship House and continue in the Partial Hospitalization Program at Addiction Recovery Program for two additional weeks. Once she is discharged from the Addiction Recovery Program, the Fellowship House will become her primary treatment program and the provider for her care and substance abuse issue. 
 
 The judge has not yet ruled on the request for bond, but police said they will not oppose bond since the baby has been born. Privacy laws prevent information from being released about the baby. 
 
 Laird is set to go to court on the child endangerment charge on March 13. ||||| A young Pleasant Grove mother has been indicted after authorities say her newborn baby girl was born addicted to heroin and had to spend one month in an Intensive Care Unit while she went through withdrawals. 
 
 A Jefferson County grand jury on April 15 indicted 21-year-old Alexandra Nicole Laird, according to court records made public Tuesday. She was initially arrested May 1, 2015 and has remained free on bond since then. 
 
 Laird on March 29, 2015 gave birth to a baby girl at UAB Medical West, court records show. Routine newborn testing performed on the day the baby was born turned up positive for opiates and amphetamines, both controlled substances. The baby on April 6, 2015 was transferred to Princeton Baptist Medical Center where she received treatment for the withdrawals. 
 
 Pleasant Grove police Lt. Danny Reid said Laird later admitted to detectives that she used heroin one to two times a week for at least five months of her pregnancy. Because of the severity of the baby's illness, Reid sought, and received, an enhanced charge of chemical endangerment of a child against Laird, which is a Class B felony. 
 
 Laird does not have custody of her daughter. "You won't know you've truly victimized this child until much later in life when she has trouble in school, trouble functioning,'' Reid said. 
 
 She also faces an unrelated drug possession charge after she was arrested again less than two months after her daughter's birth. In that case, she and a man were pulled over during a traffic stop in Tarrant, records show. The man she was with was arrested on an outstanding warrant. A search of the vehicle turned up 38 hydrocodone pills. Neither Laird nor the man claimed ownership of those pills. 
 
 In an affidavit claiming hardship to qualify for a court-appointed attorney, Laird said cleans houses for a living and is self-employed. In those records, she listed her monthly living expenses at $450 and her monthly disposable income at $50. Her only possessions of value, she wrote, is a television and bed valued at a combined $200. 
 
 Laird is set to be in court on the child endangerment charge in July.
– In what police describe as "a sad case, no matter how you look at it," an Alabama judge has ordered a suspected drug addict to remain behind bars until she gives birth to her second child. Authorities say Alexandra Nicole Laird, 21, gave birth to a baby girl who tested positive for opiates in March. She later admitted to using heroin one or two times a week for most of her pregnancy and was charged with chemical endangerment of a child, says Pleasant Grove Police Lt. Danny Reid. In the months that followed, she was charged with drug possession and failure to appear in court, reports AL.com. Jailed last week, she told officers she was again pregnant and using heroin daily, Reid says. "I'm doing my damndest to try to prevent any further damage to this child, since it's obvious the mother doesn't seem to care,'' Reid told a judge Tuesday, securing a second child-endangerment charge against Laird, who is believed to be 18 to 20 weeks pregnant. "You won't know you've truly victimized this child until much later in life when she has trouble in school, trouble functioning,'' he told Laird at an earlier hearing. Laird does not have custody of her 1-year-old daughter, who spent a month in the ICU after birth for withdrawals, reports AL.com. In a sign of America's opiate epidemic, Reuters previously reported that one drug-addicted baby is born every 19 minutes, according to 2013 numbers. (Addicts have died from withdrawal in jail.)