If fentanyl is considered 50 times more potent than morphine, just imagine how much damage it can do to a nine-month-old baby’s body.

A child died in the United States after his mother mixed the powerful drug into his formula: milk.

The forensic examination, as published by The New York Post on July 13, 2023, revealed that “the baby had enough fentanyl in his system to kill 10 people.”

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The mother changed her version of what happened with the fentanyl

The events took place on Monday, June 26 in Florida. That day, the boy was found unconscious and without a pulse in a home in Callahan (Deerfield Country Club Road) Florida.

Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper, who described himself as “appalled” by what happened, said officers tried to resuscitate the baby with CPR, but he died at a hospital in Jacksonville, the paper added.

To add more drama to this story, it is enough to know the age of the victim’s mother: 17 years old. First, he allegedly said he had no idea how this accident could have happened. But after more than two weeks, the statement changed, according to the police authority.

The medium mentioned above related that the young woman said that she felt tired that day and only thought about a nap.

The mother gave him a bottle of medicine “to put him to sleep because he was very tired

Sheriff

He admitted “that he then filled a bottle with a mixture of formula and what he thought was cocaine, but later turned out to be fentanyl,” The New York Post reported.

“This is wrong… what mother would do this?” asked Leeper, holding a bottle in his right hand and a sample of the drug in his left.

Who does that? This is beyond my imagination why a mother would do that to her child.

Sheriff Bill Leeper

The teenage mother is charged with “aggravated murder and possession of a controlled substance.”

Fentanyl, 50 times more potent than heroin, is causing “the worst drug crisis in US history”.

Fentanyl in the United States

On July 7, the head of US diplomacy, Anthony Blinken, recalled that in 2022, 110,000 people will die in his country from drug overdose, mainly fentanyl, the leading cause of death among people aged 18 to 49, the EFE news agency reported.

This year, the AFP recalled, the United States sanctioned members of drug cartels, including “Los Chapitos,” sons of Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán, for trafficking fentanyl.

According to EFE, Fentanyl is manufactured by the Mexican cartels from chemical precursors purchased in China and then trafficked to the United States, where it causes thousands of overdose deaths each year.

While mourning and condemning what had happened in Florida, Sheriff Leeper said, “No one should lose their life to this horrible deadly drug, especially an innocent baby.”