NASHUA – A judge granted an attorney’s request to postpone Friday’s scheduled hearing for Avian Jackson, the 25-year-old Nashua woman police described as impaired to the point she couldn’t spell her name – while she had a young child in her care.

An attorney for Jackson, of 139C E.Hollis St., Apt. 110, filed the motion to continue the scheduled hearing to give the sides time to gather additional documents and finalize the terms of the plea agreement, according to Jackson’s case file at Hillsborough County Superior Court-South.

The new date for the hearing has not yet been scheduled, but continuances are typically in the neighborhood of 30 days.

Jackson is charged with one count of possession of cocaine, a felony, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, misdemeanors.

The endangering charges accuse Jackson of “violating her duty of care” for the child for two reasons – that she was “extremely impaired” and “unable to care for him,” and that she allegedly left two partially-ripped bags of cocaine on the floor, “which the child could have ingested,” police wrote.

Officers were called on the afternoon of June 6 to a residence around the corner from Jackson’s residence, police said.

The caller, who lives at the residence, told police a woman who “appeared out of it” was sitting on the caller’s porch with a child.

In speaking with Jackson, an officer said he “could immediately tell that she was under the influence of something.” She identified the child as her 5-year-old son, police said.

Jackson allegedly had an “extremely difficult time focusing … she could not recall simple details, such as how to spell her name,” the officer reported.

When they went to Jackson’s apartment, the officer said he saw “two ripped plastic baggies” containing a substance believed to be cocaine on the floor just inside the living room entrance, the report states.

Meanwhile, the officer wrote, he saw the child “walking around the apartment, picking things off the (floor) and putting them in his mouth.”

Jackson allegedly told the officer “she had snorted cocaine” just before police were called.

“She also stated she did not feel fit to care for (the child) in her current state,” the officer wrote, adding that he took her into custody at that point.

Dean Shalhoup can be reached at 594-1256, or, dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com or @Telegraph_DeanS.