Ashley’s life got really hard after that. She had to stay in jail for weeks waiting for her case to move forward. During that time, she missed her daughter’s birthday, which broke her heart. She also lost her job at Waffle House, a restaurant where she worked, because she couldn’t show up. She was a single mom trying to take care of her kid, and this made everything tougher. She told news reporters later that she felt helpless and scared.
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Weeks later, a better lab test finally proved the truth: the stuff on the spoon wasn’t me*h—it was SpaghettiOs. The charges were dropped, and Ashley was let out of jail. She’d spent 31 days locked up for something she didn’t do. The police said sorry, but it didn’t fix the mess in her life. Ashley sued the police and the company that made the drug test, saying they ruined her reputation and caused her pain. She wanted them to pay for what happened.
