Wednesday, November 13, 2024 -Overland Police said Powers gave her daughter a pill she found in a drawer, and then 10 hours later the child was found dead.
A 35-year-old woman in the US has been slammed with
murder charges after giving her 14-year-old daughter a fentanyl pill when she
complained of a toothache.
Jacquelyn Powers 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.
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