Have you heard the news about the mum being found guilty....

[ThomCat]

... of killing her son with methadone?

The dose was big enough to kill an adult. And it wasn't a one of. They also found races of coaine in his hair.

Feel sick

link

She was given 2 years

two years?
that can't be right, can it - has the paper misprinted the verdict?

The radio report I heard said 2 years too It's a disgrace. Sick, sick, sick

Unfortunately this isn't a one - off. Other children have died in the same way too. Very sad.

Gemma Fennelly, 24, of Edinburgh Grove, had originally been accused of giving her son the drug to keep him quiet.

Mr Robertson said blood samples proved Mitchell had had regular doses over a protracted period.

2 years seems so dreadfully short

I saw that as I googled it for news link DD I din't know which one to click on from teh list that came up

I can't believe how short the sentence is.
Poor little boy.

manslaughter?
and the judge acused her of 'carelessness,' . I am not usually a condemnatory voice on 'crime' threads, but how can it be 'careless' to give a baby an OD - implying that it would have been ok if the dose had not been so large? It's downright murderously criminal to give a baby methadone at all!

I daresay she was unable to make a sensible decision about anything because of her own addiction - I wish more children were removed from addicts, tbh.

And there is a problem with methadone programmes that don't make people swallow it in front of them - addicts with methadone to takeaway routinely sell it and buy heroine. If she had been on a methadon prog where they have to attend to take it, she wouldn't have had the methadone to give to her baby, and needed him quiet hile she went after heroine, no doubt.

Poor little mite.

so sad, 2 years is disgraceful.

That's interesting, Fio.

It's so obvious - why isn't it implemented? i know the Maudesly clinic in london did a study with making people take it at daily counselling and support sessions...probably too expensive blah blah.