More than a year after baby died from a fentanyl overdose, Seattle parents charged with manslaughter
April 16, 2020
A Seattle lady and her husband have been each charged this week with first-degree manslaughter in reference to the dying of their infant daughter, who died in March 2019 from acute fentanyl intoxication, likely from ingesting her mom’s breast milk, in line with King County prosecutors.
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Samantha De Leo, 36, and her husband, Christopher Keadle, 44, had been each charged with one depend of first-degree manslaughter Monday, courtroom data show. They each and every posted $100,000 bail on Tuesday, and it does now not appear that either was once booked into jail, in line with prison and court information. De Leo and Keadle are scheduled to be arraigned April 27.
“The defendants had the means to provide components, or rent outdoor assist to care for their baby, but as a substitute tried to maintain her while affected by heavy narcotics,” Senior Deputy Prosecutor Emily Petersen wrote in charging papers. “While Ms. De Leo was clearly the conduit for without delay exposing the child to the medicine that killed her, Mr. Keadle was once maximum regularly the person who procured the medicine for Ms. De Leo and with out question aided in growing the surroundings and stipulations below which the newborn died. Both defendants are responsible for the death of their child.”
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The felony fees say Keadle and De Leo spent just about $100,000 last yr on cocaine and faux Oxycodone capsules laced with fentanyl — and their telephone data show they arranged for their West Seattle drug broker to send medication to their resort whilst they vacationed at Disneyland in California with their 6-year-old daughter in July, 4 months after Ava’s death, in line with the costs.
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