A teen mom has been arrested after her 9-month-old baby died when she allegedly put fentanyl in the child's bottle, police say.
DEA warns about fentanyl mixtureA 17-year-old mother in Florida has been arrested after her 9-month-old baby died when she allegedly put fentanyl in the child's bottle, police said.After claiming she did not know what happened, the mother eventually admitted to investigators that she put a substance she thought was cocaine in the baby's bottle to put him to sleep. The investigation revealed the substance was actually fentanyl, according to Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper.
Sheriff Bill Leeper holds up a pill bottle during a news conference for the Fentanyl-related death of a baby, July 12, 2023, in Nassau County, Fla."Most babies are born to loving parents who take care of all of their needs. But, unfortunately some babies are born to individuals who have no business in being a parent," Leeper said at a press conference.
On July 10, the medical examiner's office told investigators that the baby had 29 nanograms of fentanyl per milliliter of blood in his system and the cause of death was ruled a fentanyl overdose, Leeper said."The child had about 10 times the amount that would kill a person. The amount he had in his system would kill approximately 10 people," Leeper said.
After filling the baby's bottle with formula, she got a pill bottle from the bathroom with what she thought was cocaine and put some in the bottle, Leeper said. Leeper said the mother said she wanted to put the baby to sleep."She laid him down in his crib to go to sleep but he never woke up. Now who does that? What mother would do that? That's not normal. It is sick," Leeper said.
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