Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Crying 4-Year-Old Leads Cops to Mom on Drugs: Police

Episode Date: September 11, 2026

Sadie Baker, 37, faces a child endangering charge and a charge related to possession of drug paraphernalia related to an incident involving her 4-year-old son. A police officer in Terrace Park, Ohio, said she found Baker's son crying at their home and then discovered Baker overdosing on drugs in the kitchen. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy talks with Officer Maggie Quinlan about the disturbing case and the turn it has taken in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.Host:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Guest:Officer Maggie QuinlanCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Van DinhGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

She had heard the crying for about the whole time she had been there. A police officer, a crying child, and a mom found unconscious. Something just kind of told me, hey, go back. The combination lands a woman in the back of a police cruiser, and now she's facing criminal charges and the case is far from over. I'll explain. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy, and this is crime event. There's a mom who's in jail in Ohio, and frankly, she is lucky to be a lot of.

Her young son is just four years old, and he saved her life. The mom is charged with child endangering. The allegation involves her four-year-old little boy, and police say she wasn't even supposed to be around him in the first place, at least not without someone supervising her. The mother is this woman, Sadie Baker. She's 37 years old, and on September 2nd, police say she could have died had someone not seen her child outside and called police. Yes, Sadie Baker was on her way more than likely to dying.

It all started when a police officer in Terrace Park, Ohio, discovered a little boy crying at a home. And what made this even more startling and sad? The home is on an incredibly busy road. Terrace Park is a swanky community on the east side of Cincinnati. It's a suburb where mostly well-to-do families raise their children. The house sits on Wooster Pike, the main drag through the village. state route. So thank goodness, that little boy didn't wander into the road as his mother

lay unconscious, almost dead inside the home. There's much more to this story than what I've already told you. The details are absolutely incredible. So Terrace Park Police Officer Maggie Quinlan is going to join me shortly to tell us everything that happened when she arrived and how she even got this call in the first place. What officer Quinlan says she found inside the home was startling to say the least. An affidavit filed in support of a child endangering charge lays out part of it. The affidavit states, Sadie A. Baker did create a substantial risk to the safety of her four-year-old whose name we've redacted. He's the child victim. The victim was found outside sitting in the driveway to the residence crying. When the responding officer

asked where his mother was, the child led the officer to the back of the house. where a side door was open, Sadie A. Baker was located unresponsive on the floor of the kitchen with a used needle on the floor beside her, as well as other items of drug paraphernalia. Due to an active case with child protective services, Sadie A. Baker is not allowed to have unsupervised custody of the victim. So Sadie Baker was taken to the hospital, and then she was picked up by police. She spent some time in the back of that cruiser in handcuffs, and she looked around from time to time, but really, she didn't say or do much. Then Baker was taken into the jail. She was searched at the wall as any other inmate would be, and since police said they found drug

paraphernalia at the home, they need to be sure that Baker doesn't have any contraband on her. Sadie Baker was booked into the jail on the child endangering charge, along with a charge related to her possessing drug paraphernalia. And Baker isn't the only one facing charges. There's a warrant out for the arrest of the boy's father, Elijah Indino. He's accused of leaving his young son with Sadie Baker. An affidavit states, Elijah C. Indino did create a substantial risk to the safety of his four-year-old child, the victim. The victim was found outside sitting in the driveway to the residents crying. When the officer asked where his parents were, the child led the officer to the back of the house where a door was open. The child's mother was found unresponsive on the floor of the

residence overdosing. Elijah C. Indino was aware of an active CPS case involving him and the child's mother in which the mother is not allowed to have unsupervised custody of the child. Elijah C. Indino knowingly left their child in the mother's custody while he went to work despite this. All right. So to really dig in to what happened, we have Officer Maggie Quinlan of the Terrace Park Police Department. She is the officer that found this little boy and found his mother. So Officer Quinlan, thank you so much for coming on. I appreciate it. That's my pleasure. Thank you for having me. Tell me, you know, start from the very beginning about what happened. I've kind of given a primer before we came to you, but you were there on the scene. So how did this all happen? You're just kind of patrolling

around. You get the call. What happens? So it was around the start of my shift. I was getting some work done on station, received a phone call from one of our residents in town. And she had said that she was at the Sonoco gas station in town and heard a child crying. And she said she had heard the crying for about the whole time she had been there approximately 15, 20 minutes, and she just wanted somebody to check it out, and she said, you know, to make sure I'm not crazy. So I drove around the area. Initially, I didn't see anything. I double-checked, sat across the street in one of the parking lots, and just kind of watched for anything, but didn't see anything for about four or five minutes, and so I drove away.

And then something just kind of told me, hey, go back. So I did. And when I drove back, I saw the little boy walk from around the backside of the house. And he was obviously crying. So I just, I pulled over and asked if he was doing okay. And poor guy, I mean, he just burst into tears even more and started reaching out for me. So I got out of my cruiser. and I just asked him, hey, you know, are you okay?

Where are your parents? And he starts, you know, crying, Mama, Mama. And I said, well, is your mama here? And he nodded his head. I said, can you take me to your mama? And he starts, he takes my hand and kind of walks me around the back of the house. And immediately I see like the back door is wide open. And it kind of leads into this kitchen area.

Um, so the little boy he runs inside and he's, he's standing in the middle of, of the room. And when you're kind of looking in the doorway, there's like a kitchen counter that kind of blocks the view of the kitchen floor. Um, so I stood in the doorway, called out, you know, announced myself as Terrace Park police, asked if anyone was here. Um, I could hear what sounded like a cell phone alarm going off. Right. And I could smell like food cooking on the stove. So it's obvious someone's there.

And the mother's car was in the driveway as well. So everything's telling me somebody is home, but nobody's responding. And the kid starts pointing to the floor, the part that's obstructed from the counter. Could he talk? not very well. He's four years old, but he wasn't talking a whole lot. But he starts pointing at the floor,

and I said, is your mom here? And he starts pointing almost more urgently and crying harder, and I said, is that your mama? Is your mama on the floor? And he just nods his head. And so I just got on the radio and let dispatch know, hey, I'm making entry under exigent circumstances. and I found her unresponsive on the floor, the mom.

Wow. Oh, my gosh. So let's go back to a little bit to the beginning because I was out at this, you know, in this area. The Sonoco is actually across the street. Almost directly across the street, yeah. From the house. So a woman heard this child from inside the house across the street, across Worcester Pike, which is a very busy road.

Yeah, it is. Yeah. So that's that that's pretty amazing. For sure. I fully believe the child and the the resident who called I mean they're there the reasons mom is alive if you know right um just it it was it was everything kind of worked together for the best resolution you know. The stars alive. So you get in the house and you see mom unconscious, unresponsive on the kitchen floor. And what do you do next?

I called out for her. I got no response. I asked the little boy, you know, hey, you know, go wait over there. And I approached her and I checked for a pulse, you know, at her neck. And I didn't feel anything. and she, quite frankly, she was pretty cool to the touch. I honestly, I thought she was already deceased. So I get on the radio, let her dispatch know to start our EMS anyway.

And I turn around, I pick up the little boy, and, you know, I'm trying to be calm and make sure he's not panicking more than he already is. but I was about to secure him in my cruiser until some backup could arrive and look after him. And I heard the faintest snore coming from the mom. And, you know, I noticed a used syringe on the floor beside her and other evidence of drug use. It was very obvious that it was an overdose. So as soon as I heard that faint snore, I asked the little boy to, hey, go wait in your room, ran back to my cruiser, grabbed some Narcan, and we got her back.

So you administered the Narcan and that for our viewers that don't know, Narcan is essentially an antidote to an opioid, heroin, fentanyl, whatever opioid you're on, overdose, it will reverse the effects of it. So you administered the Narcan. And did she, how long did it take her to come to? Oh, so quick. So quickly. So as we have intranasal spray for our Narcan, it's the most common.

So I just use that. And right as I used it, our EMS comes in and she was starting to wake up at that point very quickly. And we were able to identify her, confirm that that was her child. So, yeah, it. She came right back, which is great, you know. It's so fortunate. I don't want any child to have to lose a parent. So it could have been a lot worse.

Yeah, most certainly it could have been a lot worse. And again, I'm just so stunned by like the fact that a woman across the street heard the baby crying. That's how loud it must have been. And then you go there, you're not seeing anything, hearing anything. And then you just had this feeling that you should go back. It's like a maternal instinct or a gut instinct of sort. Right. Yeah.

It, I mean, I had driven away for maybe a few minutes, actually, and then just kind of got the overwhelming feeling of you need to go back right now. And I did. And, you know, thank God I did. And thank God that little boy, you know, was, was, I'm impressed that he never wandered off into the roadway or anything. He stayed in his driveway, you know. And right. And just as soon as he saw my cruiser pulling up, he started reaching out his little hands for me like he knew. So I just, I'm very, very grateful for him, you know. Yeah, that's a stunning. That's something I'm very stunned about too is the fact that he did not wander into the road because that very well could have happened and that's a busy road. And you come on duty around 6 p.m. So, you know, that could be around rush hour. Rush hours wrapping up. So that's really scary.

Absolutely. So mom, Sadie Baker, this is how she's identified, is now charged with, you know, some drug paraphernalia charges, child endangering. Sadly, I mean, according to the affidavit filed in this case, she wasn't even supposed to be around the boy unless she was supervised. So tell me a little bit about that from what you know, because she was in that house somehow with this child. Yeah. And she wasn't even supposed to be around him unsupervised, according to the affidavit. Right. So I don't really know how much I'm allowed to disclose.

But dad eventually showed up while EMS was still working on Ms. Baker. I don't know how he knew, but he showed up and, you know, starts understandably freaking out. And he just told me, he said, you know, she's not supposed to be here. CPS is going to take him forever now. And I said, well, what do you mean by that? And he said, well, there's a CPS case. I said, oh. So is she not supposed to be with the child?

He said, no, she's not supposed to be with him unsupervised. I said, well, why was she then? He said, well, I had to work. So I called her and asked her to watch him. I said, oh, well, that, wasn't smart. And I mean, I understand, you know, a man's got to work to support his kid. But she's not safe, not smart. And unfortunately, he did know better. Most certainly. That's just he admitted it to you from what you're telling me.

So the little boy, was he taken to the hospital to be checked out just to be sure he was okay? So we had several EMS members keeping an eye on him, watching after him. He was perfectly safe, perfectly healthy. And then the child's aunt and uncle arrived on scene pretty quickly to take custody of him. I guess they had had custody of him in the past. CPS had placed him in their custody. So he went right back to them, which is for the best. I've met aunt and uncle before.

They seem like great people. I'm just, I'm glad that the child has a more stable to be. Yeah, a more stable living environment now. You know, obviously dad cared for the child enough to not leave the child at home alone for the mistakes. However, he is accused now of leaving the child alone with somebody who shouldn't have had him. Right. So he is now facing a criminal charge. Yes, ma'am. Yes, he is also facing child endangering charges.

And it's for, you know, what we talked about. He knowingly left their four-year-old son in her care and custody, despite knowing that she wasn't allowed unsupervised custody of him. So. So, right, did Sadie Baker, was she taking? taken to the hospital. Yes, ma'am. Okay, so she goes to the hospital or do they keep her there for a while? I mean, how long was she in the hospital before she has to go to the jail? You know, I don't know. I didn't have any active charges on her at the time. So once she was released from the hospital, she was allowed to go home. Um, or I suppose wherever she wanted to go. Um, and the, the charges came

after. I had to still speak with CPS and get all the information and facts from them, get all my reports typed up and, of course, type up the charges and bring them downtown. So her warrants came the next day. So she was released from the hospital. She was able to go where she liked. and then she was picked up by Cincinnati police on, I believe, the ninth, yesterday. Yesterday morning. She was arrested by Cincinnati police. So she's still in jail now. The little boy, thank God, is with the family, pardon me, children's services placed him with family.

So that's what they usually try to do. You know, Terrace Park, when I think of Terrace Park, this neighborhood, bad stuff can happen anywhere, obviously. But it's a really, it's a nice neighborhood. You know, it's upscale for the most part. I mean, this is not your typical run. No. And Terrace Park. What are you guys used to responding to you?

I joke around that I work for the better Mayberry. You know, our calls are, our. usually just juveniles ding-dong ditching. That's what I was wondering. Like, you know, check, hey, you know, Mrs. Jones, they're going out of the Joneses are going out of town for the week. So you need to go by and make sure nobody's like vandalize the mailbox or, you know,

broken in, stuff like that, right? Yeah. And I mean, you know, that being said, things do happen here. It's just on a much smaller scale and certainly less, less frequently. which that's part of what I love about this place. So it is definitely not a usual call for me here to respond to. But I've dealt with, I guess, somewhat similar situations in the past. I've been in law enforcement for nine years.

I've worked elsewhere before that's significantly busier. So it's, you know, it's not a first, but certainly hasn't happened for me in a while. Right. I mean, so this was a highly unusual call, but it sounds like your training from past experiences and just your training in general really kicked in. Yes. Despite working in kind of like a bedroom community where you don't. don't have a lot of action, if you will.

Yeah, for sure. I'm just, like I've said, I'm just glad she's alive and we were able to render the aid that was necessary and that the child didn't have to live with, I suppose, the more traumatic experience, or a traumatic experience more so than what it already was, especially at his young age, you know. Well, I'm just glad the little boy is safe. Me too. Hopefully, Sadie Baker can get the help that she appears to really need and get off of drugs.

Absolutely. And they have a lot of programs at the jail and through the courts to do that. Absolutely. I mean, my heart goes out to her. It really does. I obviously, I don't want children to be taken from their parents. But, you know, if it's for the safety and well-being, of the child, I'll do what I have to do. But ultimately, I just want her to, I want her to be okay.

I want her to, you know, be able to be healthy and be present for her child in the future, if she can be. I just, I'd love for her to get help, you know. Yeah, I think everybody would love her to get help, but thank goodness that little boy is safe. And hopefully he's in a very nurturing, loving environment now. For sure. Well, Officer Maggie Quinlan, a nine-year veteran of the police force. Thank you so much for joining me. It's my pleasure. Thank you for having you. Appreciate it. Appreciate you. Thank you. We will look forward to following this case to see where it ends. Yes. Thank you. For sure. Thank you. Sadie A. Baker remains in jail. Her bail was set at $6,000. She hasn't yet posted that amount.

At the time of this recording, Elijah and Dino still has a warrant out for his arrest on that child endangering charge. And that child, as we mentioned earlier, he is in the care of family members and is safe. Thank goodness. And we'll keep an eye on this case and let you know what happens. That's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Janette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.