An infant died tragically from a drug overdose after his teenage mother put fentanyl in his milk.
9-month-old Elijah from Florida succumbed to an overdose after his 17-year-old mother allegedly put enough fentanyl in his milk to “kill approximately ten people.”
According to the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department, the girl told the investigators that she was tired and that she had put drugs in her son’s drink because she wanted him to sleep so that she could take a nap.
The incident took place on June 26 when the police were called to the mother’s home after a report that a baby was not breathing. The infant was found unconscious and was pronounced dead shortly after at a Jacksonville hospital.
Following the tragic incident, the teenage mom was arrested on suspicion of aggravated manslaughter and possession of a controlled substance.
Meanwhile, Elijah’s dad, Phillip Word, spoke out and admitted that he didn’t see his son much because he was not together with the child’s mother.
Word insisted, however, that he would gladly watch over the child if Elijah’s mother let him.
“It was amazing. It’s just really the best feeling, just to meet your first kid for the first time and hold them,” he said of becoming a parent.
“I just wish I would’ve actually got to be able to get to know him and raise him. He didn’t even have a chance to start walking and stuff.”
Speaking out was also Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper who chastised the child’s mother and expressed his disappointment and grief over the tragic incident.
“Unfortunately, some babies are born to individuals who have no business being parents,” he said.
“Who does that? What mother would do that? That’s not normal. It is sick. It’s beyond my imagination why a mother would do that to her child.
“No one should lose their life to this terrible deadly drug, especially an innocent baby. The amount he had in his system would kill approximately 10 people.”
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