Posted on 10/31/2006 6:23:58 AM PST by presidio9
A woman whose year-old daughter died of a drug overdose was charged with murder after police found traces of cocaine in the baby's bottle, police said Monday.
Daniela Toledo do Prado, 21, brought her daughter Vitoria to the hospital on Saturday night, complaining that the child was suffering from convulsions caused by drinking spoiled milk.
The child vomited repeatedly and died of heart failure early Sunday, police investigator Paulo Roberto Rodrigues said.
Doctors found a suspicious white powder on the girl's tongue. The mother claimed the powder was milk but it tested positive for cocaine, Rodrigues said.
Police searched the mother's house and found a hypodermic needle and a bottle hidden behind a shelf in a baby supply bag. The bottle and the needle had traces of cocaine.
"In my 26 years in the profession, I have never seen a mother trying to poison her own child," said Rodrigues.
Rodrigues said Prado did not remember whether she had put cocaine in the bottle.
Prado was charged with homicide and could face between 12 and 30 years in prison if convicted.
Why? Yes it's a rhetorical question. God only knows.
Not this $--- again...
wth?
hang her.
Prado was charged with homicide and could face between 12 and 30 years in prison if convicted.
seems premeditated to me, how about the death penalty?
All she did was exercise her fabled right to choose twelve months late, and now the anti-woman Taliban are charging her with urder.
ping
Just take her to the edge of the local dump and shoot her. She does not deserve the gift of life.
She forgot not to.
SAO PAULO, Brazil
I bet there won't be any drug legalization advocates posting to this thread.
Don't bet on it. Most of the liberaltarians who hang around here are suffering from drug-induced brain damage. Logic is not in their playbook.
I guess it's nothing more than a delayed abortion......sick!
I guess dear Mommy forgot to rinse out baby's bootle after using it to transport or hide her cocaine stash.
Whatever the facts are leading up to this child's death, be sure that this crack whore will get a full dose of liberal sympathy, and with a good lawyer, will have a whole variety of 'womanly excuses' for getting away with murder to choose from.
Give a baby something that'll either kill her or keep her awake and cranky all night. That's just sheer inspired parenting.
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