A Mother's Nightmare! See Inside The Seedy Heroin Den Where Rosie O'Donnell's Teen Daughter Was Found
Aug. 27 2015, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
It wasn't exactly a happy ending when Rosie O'Donnell's missing teen daughter Chelsea was discovered in Barnetgat, New Jersey, on August 18. As RadarOnline.com reported, the 16-year-old was discovered inside the home of convicted heroin dealer Steven Sheerer, 25. And now, only RadarOnline.com has the shocking details and photos that shed light on what she may have endured on the heels of her leaving a second time to live with her biological mother.
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Barnegat Police Lt. Keith Germain told RadarOnline.com that Chelsea was found hiding in a windowless attic in the home where Sheerer lives with his parents and a sibling.
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Chelsea was holding her therapy dog, a nine-pound black terrier named Bear.
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"It was clear that she didn't want to be found," said Lt. Germain. "But she was friendly and cooperative." This attic in a neighboring home is similar to the one where Chelsea was found.
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Cops found no evidence of drugs, but when Sheerer was arrested in 2012, they found heroin and marijuana inside his home
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A neighbor told The ENQUIRER, "Steven is known on the block as 'the drug addict.' You hope the girl isn't doing drugs with him."
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A source close to O'Donnell said that was exactly the comedian's fear. Jami Weaver, 33, who is the birth mother of O'Donnell's youngest adopted daughter, Dakota, 2, told RadarOnline.com, "When I was pregnant, Rosie told me Chelsea was having all sorts of problems."
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According to Weaver, she said, "that she was doing drugs."
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Weaver also claimed she said "that she wanted to be a stripper."
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"She said she was in school but wasn't doing good," Weaver claimed. "She kept running away."
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Sheerer was arrested on Friday for endangering the welfare of a minor and distributing obscenity to a minor.
