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A 50-year-old woman in Baltimore is charged with murder and child abuse after she rubbed methadone on her one-year-old grandsons gums to make him sleep, causing a lethal overdose. According to WJZ, Baltimores CBS Channel 12, Towanda Reaves used the powerful synthetic opiate on both the boy and his two-year-old sister.
The children were visiting Reaves overnight for the Fourth of July when the incident took place. Neighbors told WJZ that they thought the children were exposed to the drug by accident, but according to police, Reaves confessed to giving them the powerful narcotic to make them sleep.
She confirmed that she had given methadone to the children and put it on the gum lines of their mouths, said Baltimore Police spokesperson Det. Jeremy Silbert.
Methadone is given to heroin addicts in order to manage their cravings for opiates and ease the symptoms of heroin withdrawal. Neighbors expressed shock that Reaves would do such a thing, calling her a doting and attentive grandmother.
She really took care of them. As far as I can see, she wasnt a bad person, one neighbor said.
Another woman told WJZ, As a grandmother myself, I just cant imagine it. I just cant imagine.
Watch video about this story from Baltimores CBS affiliate Channel 12 WJZ:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/04/baltimore-baby-died-after-grandmother-gave-him-methadone/
Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)It's not a solution to a problem that I would have thought of but I wouldn't have guessed that rubbing methadone on a baby's gums could cause an overdose.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)would the child have lived???
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