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Title: Baby Dies from Overdose, Drug Addict Mother’s Breast Milk To Blame
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URL Source: https://www.westernjournal.com/moth ... pm&utm_content=western-journal
Published: Jul 16, 2018
Author: The Western Journal
Post Date: 2018-07-17 06:24:42 by BTP Holdings
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Comments: 3

Baby Dies from Overdose, Drug Addict Mother’s Breast Milk To Blame

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By The Western Journal

July 16, 2018 at 11:03am

A 30-year-old woman with a painkiller addiction has been accused of killing her 11-week-old son with a lethal mix of drugs in her breast milk.

Samantha Jones was charged Friday with criminal homicide in the April 2 death of her baby.

An autopsy found the baby died from a combination of methadone, amphetamine and methamphetamine, the Bucks County District Attorney’s office said in a statement.

According to an affidavit, Jones told police she’d been too tired to make the baby a bottle when he awoke crying at 3 a.m. and instead breastfed him. A few hours later, the baby was pale and had bloody mucus coming from his nose, she told police.

Jones’s mother began CPR at the instruction of a dispatcher after they called 911, the affidavit said.

Police arrived at the home in New Britain, about 35 miles north of Philadelphia, to find the baby in cardiac arrest.

He was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he died.

The affidavit stated that Jones said she primarily had been breastfeeding the baby, but switched to formula a few days before the baby’s death, saying the infant wasn’t getting enough milk.

Jones told police that she had been prescribed methadone because of an addiction to painkillers, that she had taken it during her pregnancy, and that she was taking it at the time of the baby’s death, the affidavit said.

A message seeking comment from her lawyer, Louis Busico, wasn’t returned Monday. Other parents have faced charges over drug-laced breastmilk in recent years.

In 2016, two former Arizona TV news reporters were sentenced to a year of probation and suspended 30-day jail terms after cocaine was found in their baby’s system.

And in 2012, a California woman whose infant son died after ingesting methamphetamine-laced breast milk was sentenced to six years in prison.


Poster Comment:

Sick is what this is. Anything you put in your body comes out somewhere else.

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#1. To: BTP Holdings, HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)

It doesn't get any sicker. EVERYBODY KNOWS you shouldn't take your first hit of an addictive substance, so EVERYBODY IS IMMEDIATELY, PERSONALLY responsible for all the hell that follows. There is no excuse for addicted ameriKa -- none.

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-17   8:18:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)

There is no excuse for addicted ameriKa -- none.

When I worked for State of Illinois, I had a lot of back injuries. I had a prescription for 2 mg Valium. I was not taking them. I sold them to a guy I worked with. Not sure how many of them he took at a time. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2018-07-18   5:54:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: BTP Holdings (#2)

Ouch. I have a bottle of hydrocodone from my gall bladder crisis -- friends said not to take it, I didn't need it after all, don't know what to do with it.

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-18   9:12:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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