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Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:22:48 +0800
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POLICE: DRUG-ADDICT MOM KILLED BABY WITH BREAST MILK
Powell July 31, 1997
Web posted at: 10:55 p.m. EDT (0255 GMT)
TUCSON, Arizona (AP) -- Police have charged a woman with murder,
claiming her breast milk was so full of heroin and methadone that it
killed her 7-week-old daughter.
The father was also charged with murder for not intervening,
authorities said.
"It's true with any form of child abuse that it's preventable, but
this one seems to be more preventable. It seems to be more of a
conscious choice," Tucson Police Detective Sgt. Brett Klein said
Thursday.
Doctors put Eve Powell into the intensive care unit after she was
born on May 16 because she was dependent on methadone, the
opium-based drug used to help wean heroin addicts.
Before sending Eve home from the hospital a month later, medical
workers warned the baby's 24-year-old mother, Amoret Powell, that
resuming her heroin habit while breast-feeding could kill the baby,
police said.
But on July 10, tiny Eve was rushed to another hospital,suffering
from severe oxygen deprivation. She died the next day.
On Wednesday, authorities charged Amoret Powell with first-degree
murder, alleging that she killed her daughter by giving her
drug-filled breast milk.
Police found used syringes and other drug paraphernalia in her home,
and she admitted using heroin after Eve's birth, Klein said.
Test results from Eve's body are pending, but doctors say the
heroin-methadone combination can cause the oxygen deprivation that
killed the baby.
Eve's father, Robin Johnson, 33, also was charged with murder
because the death resulted from child abuse and he did nothing to
stop it, Klein said. Each is being held on $1 million bond.
Powell is not the first mother to face a murder charge fornursing a
child while using drugs. A jury in Bakersfield, California,
deadlocked on a murder charge but convicted a woman of child
endangerment after she nursed while using methamphetamine. Another
woman in Los Angeles pleaded guilty to child endangerment for also
nursing while using methamphetamine.
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NODE d150b191Re: http:--www.cnn.com-US-9707-31-breast.milk-
Tim May <tcmay@got.net>Sat, 2 Aug 1997 09:54:54 +0800
At 8:10 PM -0700 7/31/97, Jim Choate wrote:
>
> TUCSON, Arizona (AP) -- Police have charged a woman with murder,
> claiming her breast milk was so full of heroin and methadone that it
> killed her 7-week-old daughter.
>
Too bad she'll go to prison, as I heard she has killer tits.
(My apologies to the wimminfolk here...I couldn't resist. Besides, women I
know are equally willing to make similar jokes, e.g., the gal who deride
rock music favored by young men as "cock rock. I then asked her what she
thought of "clit lit." She laughed.)
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