Posted on 08/29/2018 4:40:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
According to an affidavit, Jones told investigators that about 3 a.m. April 2, she heard R.J. crying.
He had been primarily breastfed, Jones said, but she had recently started using formula because she worried that he wasn't getting enough milk and wasn't sleeping. She was too tired to make a bottle of formula, according to the affidavit, so she decided to nurse him. She then dozed on and off for a few more hours.
Before her husband, Vincent McGovern, left for the day, he made R.J. a bottle and left it with Jones. She remembers feeding R.J., putting him back in his bassinet around 6:30 a.m. and going back to sleep.
In the affidavit, Jones said she woke up about an hour later and panicked when she saw that R.J. was pale and had bloody mucus coming out of his nose. Jones and her mother, who also lived in the house, called 911 and began CPR.
R.J. was taken to a hospital by ambulance and pronounced dead by 8:30 a.m.
According to the Bucks County Coroner's Office, the autopsy revealed traces of methadone, amphetamine and methamphetamine were found in the infant's blood and contributed to his death.
The affidavit further noted that the examiner who performed the autopsy said "R.J. ingested the combination of fatal drugs through breast milk."
According to the affidavit, Jones told the investigators that she had been prescribed methadone since pregnancy to help manage her addiction to opioid painkillers, but there is no mention of other drugs.
Investigators say they tested the bottle last used to feed R.J., as well as the can of formula, and found no traces of illicit drugs.
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So sad.
I’m not sure if stupidity is a crime.
It’s its own punishment, though.
How saturated does one have to be to become so toxic? Poor child.
It really is.
I believe that charges are warranted. I do question homicide. Manslaughter would be a better fit in my mind. There runs the chance that the defendant will get off do to overreach on the charges.
Death of another Crack Baby by the hands of a Crack Head mommy.
“methadone, amphetamine and methamphetamine”
She needs to be hung by her tits in the town square. Then send her to jail.
[ She needs to be hung by her tits in the town square. Then send her to jail. ]
Sterilized too, spare another innocent the same fate later.
Sad story, it truly it.
But the unvarnished reality is this: that child would have never had a chance with that family to make it to adulthood.
It’s the same as if she had given the baby drugs that she was using... it’s murder
This is terrible; poor child. Yet, in some places, late term abortion is ok. Sick world all around.
I disagree, murder is willful and intentional killing.
The narrative presented seems more accidental than intentional.
I don’t think the commenters here read the article as I did. The implication is that these charges are a bit of a reach, to put it mildly. It may indeed be grandstanding. Time and the Courts will tell, but it seems like this woman’s defense atty will have much to work with.
She had started feeding formula because she knew her breast milk was going to poison the baby because of her drug use. Then she gets high and doesn’t care because she’s high. Feeds the baby her drugged up greasy milk.....she may as well just have given the kid the drugs direct
It’s murder pure and simple. Just because you’re high doesn’t mean you’re stupid . It means you don’t care
Opioids will partition into breast milk and thus have a higher concentration than the blood levels. Her stupidity killed her child. Very sad this is.
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