Couple gave their baby shots of heroin...

[Archae]

Until it wouldn't wake up, and now the baby has died.

Texas baby with injection marks, positive heroin test, dies

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Police say a 2-month-old girl who tested positive for heroin after being found unresponsive with injection marks at a West Texas home over the weekend has died.

San Angelo police said Thursday that Brixlee Marie Lee died Tuesday at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth.

Police say officers rushed Brixlee to a San Angelo hospital Saturday after responding to a report of an unconscious infant.

Hospital staff found injection marks on her extremities and head, and her urine tested positive for heroin.

https://www.wbay.com/2020/11/13/texas-baby-with-injection-marks-positive-heroin-test-dies/

[LakeArenal]

1. Took forever for the link to not view

Please say if they had a reason for doing something this heinous.

[mr_lebowski]

6. My guess is the baby was born addicted and very miserable ...

She was probably not eating, had massive terrible diarrhea, and was crying absolutely
constantly.

All their money, they needed for drugs, so a doctor was out of the question.

Sharing the heroin with the baby made it 'normal' i.e. not dopesick, screaming, miserable, able to nurse, etc.

They probably, in their drug-induced and entirely selfish mindsets ... decided it was better to take away the babies misery by sharing their dope with her.

Then they accidentally gave her too much and she died ... heroin is notoriously variable in terms of potency.

That's the most generous explanation I can come up with. The fact that there were multiple track marks supports this theory.

[LeftInTX]

13. Your response got me searching

When an infant is born addicted etc, it is usually put into the foster system. Opiate addiction is treated at the hospital and the infant is not released until there are no signs of addiction. In this case, the infant would have gone through treatment and custody would be pending. Infant probably would not be in the custody of the mother based on what I see.

Officers then learned that the baby was born on August 23, 2020 inside of the home. During the birth the grandmother, Cristin Bradley, cut the umbilical cord with a shoelace.

I'm surprised they called 911 when the baby was unresponsive. They could have gotten away with this if they hadn't called 911. You wonder how often this happens?

https://sanangelolive.com/news/crime/2020-11-10/heroin-household-infant-critical-condition

[mr_lebowski]

14. As mentioned, they had the child at home ...

Which is probably not terribly uncommon when people strung out and have no money to go to a hospital and don't want to risk getting busted by going there.

I think it's probably not THAT common for people to dose their infant this way, if for no other reason than that addicts don't want to share their dope. Most of 'em in similar circumstances would probably let baby be dopesick for a week or so.

As shitty as it is to come into the world this way, if the infant is healthy otherwise, it should survive withdrawals okay.

[LeftInTX]

15. I worked with them

One by themselves isn't too bad, but we got a plethora. One starts crying and they all start crying, ugh...not factored into our acuities. It kinda sounded like a kennel in the nursery!
We also lost our volunteers around this time...(The volunteers were our cuddlers. The nurses were for feeding, assessment and giving meds...) I remember trying to get creative with some of the symptoms, just so we would get more staff. We never got more staff.

Some of the babies had quantifiable symptoms such as trouble feeding, some would gulp their formula so fast they would throw up. (But feeder and grower premies were already at more risk because they often needed tube feeding..and had more feeding issues than withdrawal infants)

Most were just extremely irritable and restless, which gave them like 1 point on the scale.....

[mr_lebowski]

16. As horrible as this is as a concept coming into the world this way ...

At least they don't have any experience with what 'feeling good' is really like ... at least not outside the womb. Nothing to compare it to. And no understanding of what is actually going on.

Very different from a grown person going through withdrawals ... with bills to pay, a job to be at (maybe), kids to care for ... and needing food and shelter in general. And GUILT and depression you go through ... man ... it's friggin BAD.

I'd say it's probably a lot worse for an adult vs a baby honestly.

But a baby is innocent, so it feels worse to think about.

[RainCaster]

2. This is wrong on so many levels

They can spend the rest of their lives in prison.

[mr_lebowski]

3. I generally have a measure of empathy for the craziness that opioid addiction causes ...

Being as how I've been there, and done some crazy shit in the process, but ... this one?

Just no.

You can go ahead and give them life w/o parole, with extreme prejudice afaic.

[Progressive Jones]

4. The parents deserve death. Sorry, but I'm not sorry about my stance. nt

[judesedit]

5. Sick mfr's. In her head, too!!! Hope they get hefty sentences and get their comeuppance in jail.

Pathetic. They're not even fit to be called humans.

[Horse with no Name]

11. There is a very generous vein in the head

We often start IV’s there.
That being said these fuckers are monsters. I will tell you though that San Angelo isn’t the place to fuck up.
You can rest assured these people will be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

[judesedit]

17. I hope they rot in jail. If/when they get straight, they'll have to live with themselves

Their own personal hells

[CornbreadJohnson]

7. This makes me cry

How incredibly sad

[BusyBeingBest]

8. I do not understand this...at all. Why?

Just to torture her? To "euthanize" her? To get her to be quiet? Sick fucks in this world.

[Ninga]

10. Most likely never wanted the child to begin with.

[gulliver]

9. Hell is in that direction. There's no Earthly limit to how awful a thing can happen.

Society still hasn't gotten its sea legs in the new environment we find ourselves in. It's not going to be possible to get all the Hell out of Earth. That's well known and has been for the longest time. But we're just doing a really substandard job of chilling out and getting our shit together. The recent election is a hopeful sign to me. A big one.

[LakeArenal]

12. All I can say is.....

We snorted heroine once. It was soo effin good it scared us straight. We never touched it again.

Always underestimated in the enforcement and treatment talk, is the fact that narcotics make you feel great. They are hugely fun as well as hugely addictive.
Edit: obviously drug crazed is not an excuse for any of this.

Just a reason.