Posted by Amarachi on Wed 13th Nov, 2024 - tori.ng
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.