on the morning of June 24 2022 employees
of a pizza shop were working in the back
of the restaurant when one employee
called everyone to the front to witness
the bizarre scene unfolding in the
parking lot what's the baby daddy's name
um
you don't know his name
is that little messed up yeah I met him
when I was talking to him a long time
ago
a seemingly heavily intoxicated woman
was teetering around in loops on a
bicycle doing her best to stay upright
with the two large milk crates bungee
corded to the front and rear of the bike
the employees stood and watched an
amusement until the woman hit the curb
directly outside the restaurant's door
and nearly toppled over revealing the
contents of the milk crates it was at
that point that the employee's smiles
were wiped away as they realized what
they were seeing
two limp infants were nearly spilling
out of the frontmost crate one baby
remained curled motionless on the bottom
face pressed against the shoulder of the
other who was unable to move much due to
the cramped conditions of the crate a
few minutes later officer Goetz with the
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police
Department arrives and approaches the
restaurant to be first greeted by the
woman with the bike all of us are seeing
my babies in this right he told me to
look my mobile wrap okay
okay where's that they got my baby they
straight took my basket when I was doing
my dirt road
so those are your kids yeah
okay do you need to see a medic or
anything no uh
thanks
and I was coming to see my girlfriend
okay and uh you don't have you know you
can't be just driving your babies around
like that
across the street over there
so I was putting my wrap back on yes sir
okay yeah
um
they're your fans
is this normally how you transport them
to their doctor's appointments and
everything for real I don't have no
chance to understand it's harder yeah
okay where do you live at uh myself
Prospect with my mom okay but my friends
want me to come down here at 12th Street
to see her okay she doesn't have a ride
no she didn't have a car for you
you got your license on or anything
no my name is Blossom Kirby can we go
back in here
it's at this point officer Getz returns
to her car to run the 35 year old's name
through the system to find out if she
has any criminal history or active
warrants
they are sunburned all the hell yeah
they're a newborns yeah
what's your address
yeah what do you say it
Uma
um no my uh baby daddy does
where's he at uh he's not my queen he
has your phone yeah is he able to come
get you no he gets a lot he got he has a
bicycle too
what's the baby daddy's name
um
you don't know his name
is this is that a little messed up yeah
I met him when I was classes a long time
ago are you still prostituting no no
okay your confidential is two one zero
seven and two girlfriends
do you have a phone yeah
this is her number
that's where that's where you were gonna
go yeah and she knows you have two
babies yeah she won she wanted me to
come and see her that's why I came out
she don't have a car she couldn't come
pick you up I don't know if her or her
daughter how long you been riding your
bicycle out here
um not that long not that long
I just left from my mama's house okay so
and then I came right there and they uh
the police pulled up on me over there
what there were police at stop you yeah
what'd they look like a white man and
he's like we just got a call in
concerned about you and have the babies
in the basket I said okay I'll put my
mobile rat back on he is like good do
that and you have blessings
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as officer Getz heads back to her car to
see if any other patrol cars had been in
the area Blossom stops her
thank you yeah
yeah I don't have no Transportation
sticking back up I got bust my I can get
less money or something well I think BCS
can kind of come out here huh I think
these guys might be coming out here hold
on
checking in her car gets doesn't hear
from any other Patrols in the area but
she does hear back from DCS who have a
couple of questions for her prompting
officer gets to join her fellow officers
yeah
it's at this point that they arrest
blossom
s
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office
well right now it's gonna be worked out
endangerment okay sounds endangerment
oh my God
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our babies are really taking care of so
they're going to get taken well there's
gonna be a case open up and they're
gonna look into it okay
we have DCS
okay so thank you baby
those are your first kids ever had
got nothing in here
like I said DC is probably gonna be
looking into all that I'll probably
contact you at 11.
can I get a phone call We're not gonna
call anybody so you go up my mom now
I'll let your mom know it's at this
point dispatch gets in contact with
officer gets with the information she
requested regarding Blossom's priors and
what is said is shocking
wow
yeah I was impressed but I just left
depression a week ago Fresh Start likely
referring to the Fresh Start Recovery
Center is described as a family-focused
residential addictions treatment program
for mothers and their children and is
run by The Volunteers of America likely
the VOA Blossom was referencing earlier
however this only confirms that Blossom
might have had an addiction at one point
and that she sought treatment for the
good of her pregnancy
while in the car officer Goetz asks the
new mother some more questions you've
been arrested before
you're on probation right now
there are conflicting news reports on
What charges this probation was for with
some claiming it was for auto theft and
some claiming it was for a battery
charge
eventually
I mean I'm probably gonna transport to
the hospital
and so how you're parenting right now
okay that's the only issue
I don't know like I said DCS will have a
case manager assigned to you and they're
going to figure all that stuff out okay
I'm sure you are I really am okay
Missouri that's right supervisor how old
are those kids
a few months old did you have your kids
while you're in rehab yeah just off
screen to officer Getz left the two
other officers are going through
Blossom's backpack on the car's hood and
at this point one holds up some soft
baby books to the window yeah I read
them books to them
eventually the forgiveness
with them in those crates before
is that is that correct no I was a
professionals so where are you using
your bus passes because I ran out
anymore
they wouldn't give you any more though
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after a while of sitting in the squad
car in silence officer Getz asks Blossom
who she can call to come pick up her
bike and the remaining bottles of milk
and cereal as liquids cannot be taken to
holding whose number Blossom gives is
unclear but the resulting phone call was
to put it mildly very bizarre hello hey
they're taking the babies to the
hospital because they've been out of the
upset mother for having a babies in a
basket on the bike
um and I'm going to jail I guess they
got me in handcuffed hey if I had a ride
you baby
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uh the children are gonna be at Riley
Hospital
you need to come get this bicycle all
right just come get the bicycle
they're gonna be at Riley Hospital
can I come and get him at Riley Hospital
you can meet DCS down there
all right thank you no tell it I'm
getting the bicycle at Justice
hey you could go get the babies at Riley
Hospital
Riley
where are you at I'm in the back of the
police car again I didn't do nothing
wrong I was just out with them for 20
minutes
this banter continues for another two
minutes
all right thanks bye bye
after hanging up officer Getz steps out
of the car and loosens Blossom's
handcuffs so she can sit more
comfortably then stands outside with the
other two officers while waiting for the
transport vehicle after a while Grandma
arrives on the scene I'll deal with it
you can watch a prisoner what's going on
I don't know
what what
you guys what did Boston yeah she's in
here what's what's going on she's going
to jail for what for neglect of
dependent and the babies as well baby's
going to Riley they're gonna be taking
DCS
custody's okay they got some they got
some wounds
we got some cuts and abrasions
um wow probably riding around in the
milk crate from Prospect all the way
over to here and therefore we had
abrasion yeah
on their bodies on their hands one of
the babies had 103 degree temperature
the other one had like 101. at this
point transport arrives for blossom and
takes her off to the county jail where
she's eventually released though is
rearrested a few days later she was
charged with two counts of child neglect
and in June of 2023 sentenced to one
year in prison there's no evidence she
tested positive for any narcotics and
she was not charged with any
drug-related offenses during this time