Katreice Trujillo, the girl in the center in the above classy photo (courtesy of her MySpace) has been arrested on suspicion of poisoning her 3 month old … with Meth.
From CBS4Denver:
DENVER (CBS4) ― A Denver woman is facing child abuse charges after being arrested Wednesday on suspicion of giving methamphetamine to her 3-month-old child.
Katreice Trujillo, 27, faces a charge of child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury.
On March 28 the child was taken to Children’s Hospital because it was experiencing seizures. Doctors determined that the child had meth in its system.
“Methamphetamine could kill an adult,” said Sonny Jackson, spokesman for Denver police. “Think about a 3-month-old baby taking this kind of drug. It’s very, very dangerous.”
The arrest and search warrant said Trujillo told police she called 911 when she noted her baby “shaking” and that “his eyes had rolled back.”
Tests at the hospital found the baby was also “bleeding from his stomach.”
“This was not a meth lab,” Jackson said. “This is not a situation where the child is accidentally crawling on the floor while they cook meth. This is a situation where truly the child did ingest the drug.”
The court documents said Trujillo told police she did not breast feed, but used formula from a bottle.
The last quote implies that Trujillo is herself on meth but that breast feeding wasn’t how she got the meth into the baby.
Morbid over at Dreamin’ Demon thinks that the fact that Trujillo is being charged with child abuse as opposed to child endangerment means the cops are operating under the theory that Trujillo deliberately dosed her kid with the drug.
Often enough I’ll get a comment or Email implying I’m some sort of Stalinist because I don’t think drug use is “victimless” and that legalization won’t reduce crime. In the real world crimes related to drugs are not entirely caused by the tension between state and dealer, but by the users themselves whose lives often spiral out of control.
Katreice Trujillo gave her 3 month old baby crystal meth. She didn’t want the baby to die clearly since she called 911, but why then did she give the baby the meth?
We will never know, but that child may be brain damaged from the overdose. Trujillo’s drug use has a victim beside her and if drugs were legal this tragic case would still have happened.
