A Missouri woman has been charged after giving a fentanyl pill to her 14-year-old daughter when she complained of a toothache.
Jacquelyn Powers, 35, was arrested Thursday in the teen’s Oct. 3 death, reported fox 2.
Overland police said Powers gave her daughter a pill she found in a drawer and 10 hours later the girl was found dead.
She told police she believed the pill was oxycodone from her own previous surgery, according to court documents.
However, an autopsy report showed that the girl died from a fentanyl overdose without oxycodone in her system.
Jacquelyn Powers (pictured), 35, was arrested for her teenage daughter’s Oct. 3 fentanyl overdose.
Overland police said Powers gave her daughter a pill she found in a drawer and then 10 hours later, the girl was found dead (Powers pictured when she was arrested).
‘This is tragic. This shouldn’t happen. “He’s 14 years old and he had a lot of years to wait,” said Overland Police Department Capt. Jim Morgan.
Powers admitted to police that she had traded some of her oxycodone with her mother in exchange for pills her mother bought on the street to “protect” her.
According to court documents, he said he also kept those pills in a drawer.
The local news station captured Powers’ arrest outside his home on Echo Lane, nearly a month after his daughter’s death.
Powers was wearing tan pants and a black hooded sweatshirt that covered her head as police escorted her to their vehicles.
She has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child and felony death of a child.
Powers is being held on $150,000 bail and her next court hearing is scheduled for Nov. 19.
In California, the mother of two young children faces murder charges after her three-year-old children died from alleged exposure to drugs laced with fentanyl.
She told police she believed the pill was oxycodone from her own previous surgery.
Jestice James, 22, was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of child abuse after her twins, Josiah and Jestine, were found unresponsive in their Canoga Park home on July 11.
The three-year-old twins were unresponsive when paramedics arrived at the apartment where James was with her boyfriend and family.
The children were rushed to a nearby hospital, but relatives said it was too late. Josiah, the eldest of the twins, died that same night, while Jestine died two days later.
Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami told DailyMail.com that James’ case is the first in Los Angeles County where a father has been charged in deaths related to an alleged fentanyl overdose, which is becoming a ” disturbing trend”.
“Children are the most vulnerable,” Hatami said. ‘They don’t buy fentanyl and they don’t smoke it. Adults do it, but it’s the innocent children who pay the ultimate price. It is unacceptable.
“When it comes to fentanyl exposure, we must do everything we can to protect innocent children.”
