Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - A Missouri woman in the US has been charged with murder after giving her 14-year-old daughter a fentanyl pill when she complained of a toothache.
Jacquelyn Powers, 35, was arrested last week for the October
3 death of the teenage girl, reported Fox 2.
Overland Police said Powers gave her daughter a pill she
found in a drawer, and then 10 hours later the child was found dead.
She told police she believed the pill was an oxycodone from
her own previous surgery, court documents state.
However, an autopsy report showed the girl died of
a fentanyl overdose with no oxycodone in her system.
'This is tragic. This shouldn’t happen. She's 14, she had a
lot of years to look forward to, ' Overland Police Department Capt. Jim Morgan
said.
Powers admitted to police that she had traded some of her
oxycodone with her mother in exchange for pills her mom bought on the street to
'protect her.'
According to court documents, she said she also kept those
pills in a drawer.
Powers has been charged with endangering the welfare of a
child and felony death of a child. She is being held on $150,000 bond and has
her next court hearing scheduled for November 19.
In California, the mother of twin toddlers is
facing murder charges after her three-year-old sons died from alleged exposure
of drugs laced with fentanyl.
Jestice James, 22, was charged with two counts of murder and
two counts of child abuse after her twins - Josiah and Jestine- were found
unresponsive at their home in Canoga Park on July 11.
The three-year-old twins were unresponsive when
paramedics arrived at the apartment where James was with her boyfriend and
her family.
The boys were rushed to a nearby hospital, but family
members said it was too late. Josiah, the older of the twins, died later that
night, while Jestine died two days later.
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