GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two months after Lonzie Barton disappeared, newly released video shows how his mother was behaving.
Lonna Lauramore Barton was seen jumping on a hotel bed, laughing, smoking a cigarette and doing drugs. That's what police say she was doing in the video from a confidential informant, who was given money by deputies, to buy drugs from Lauramore Barton and her husband, Chris Barton. The video shows the informant getting in the car with them as Lauramore Barton opens up about her son's case and about those criticizing her.
"You wanna sit here and put me down for making a bad decision on who I left my child with, honestly I peed clean," she can be heard saying on the video.
She goes on to say "When all this **** was going on, I wasn't even ****** up on drugs."
She also says, "People that know me, know better ... If you have to question whether I'd do something like that ... that's just, who could, what momma could," said Lauramore Barton.
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It's the first time we've heard Lauramore Barton question leaving Lonzie with her then boyfriend Ruben Ebron, who is charged in Lonzie's disappearance. Lauramore Barton even talked about her tattoo of Ebron's name.
"I need someone to cover up a tattoo for me," said Lauramore Barton.
Throughout the two hours of newly released video, Chris Barton doesn't say much. But you see the couple prepping what appears to be drugs. We've also shown Lauramore Barton shooting what police say was the drug Molly.
"If it's not Molly, I don't even pay. It's the only thing I do really," said Lauramore Barton.
Lauramore Barton also talks about her daughter's custody case, saying her daughter has lost both brothers and has no one.
"I see her four days, more than what you give me. I said my mom brings her to my house every morning. I give her a bath and get her dressed and my mom takes her to school. She's lost both brothers … she has nobody."
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