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According to Missouri authorities and local news reports, prosecutors charged an East St. Louis woman on Monday after police said her 8-year-old child was driving her car the wrong way on a downtown street while she lay unconscious in the back seat. Latonya Mayes-Gale is reportedly the woman who passed out in the back. According to reports, she was driving, but she told the boy to take over so she could settle into the back seat. On Monday, while officers were near the Gateway Arch and 4th and Walnut streets in downtown St. Louis, they observed a car traveling west in the eastbound lanes. The …