Baby girl died of fentanyl overdose after meddling California lawmakers overrode social workers' decision to take her away from drug-abuser dad

Daily Mail UK ^ | November 5, 2023 | Dominic Yeatman

[Morgana]

Soft touch California lawmakers boasted about their success in slashing child removals just days before a newborn baby died from a fentanyl and methamphetamine overdose in the care of her drug-addicted dad.

Baby Phoenix was too young to eat solid food when she was poisoned by the drugs found alongside her bottle in May at the San Jose home of David Castro, despite repeated warnings from neighbors.

Older children had previously been removed from a man with eight earlier drug convictions, but Santa Clara County had recently changed its 'threshold' for removal, citing a commitment to 'racial justice.'

Officials insisted they were unaware of 'a single example where a child was determined to be '"unsafe," and subsequently left in the care of the offending parent.'

Two weeks later, Phoenix was dead.

'There's no reason why this baby had to die,' neighbor Nancy Wetherington told Mercury News.

'CPS or police or someone should have stepped in and taken this baby. How did this baby skate through, a beautiful baby girl?

'The baby should be alive.'

Castro had met the child's mother, Emily De La Cerda, 39, at an addicts' recovery program.

She was in drug treatment after suffering withdrawal during birth at the time of Phoenix's death and was dead three months after her child, also from a fentanyl overdose.

The number of children removed from their families had dropped from more than 60 in August 2020 to fewer than 20 in February 2022 as the new orthodoxy took hold in Santa Clara.

By the time of Phoenix's birth, the county was under investigation after worried social workers raised the alarm about progressive lawyers overriding child welfare decisions.

[blackdog]

When life isn’t valued, child deaths at the hands of their parents are just procrastination abortions. Procrastination isn’t illegal. It’s just uncomfortable. /s

[JustaTech]

They must be running out of buyers if they’re returning children to their parents.

I mourn for the child but it would have been worse off as merchandise.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Albion Wilde]

And for once, it's not what you think. Ironic that this lowering of the threshhold was done for racial justice reasons. They forgot about white trash.