The worst news a parent can receive is the death of a child. And that report of pain came via text message to the parent of the baby who died drunk, after his mother mixed the milk formula with fentanyl.

Reading the message had a great impact on this father, young as the one who was detained today, but who regrets this tragedy and made it known through a short interview with Univisión.

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

The father of the fentanyl-poisoned baby speaks

This young man’s name is Philip Word and he said that “the family situation was complex” and he saw little of his son, who was only 9 months old.

The first reaction upon reading the embarrassing message was to think it was a mistake.

“I didn’t think it was real,” says Philip, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida.

“I would have loved to meet him, raise him. He had a whole family that he never got to know, but who loved him and didn’t get to know him,” he lamented maturely.

The young mother’s confession about fentanyl

The news of what happened to the 9-month-old baby traveled the world and shocked families around the world.

Last week, Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper told the media that a 17-year-old girl “was arrested and charged with the death of her 9-month-old baby, who authorities say was bottle-fed.” with milk and fentanyl. , reported EFE news agency.

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.”

The tragedy became known in Florida last Monday, June 26. That day, the boy was found unconscious and without a pulse in a home in Callahan (Deerfield Country Club Road) Florida.

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

Leeper said the woman described herself as tired and wanted to take a nap, so she filled the baby’s bottle and put in some “what she thought was cocaine,” but it was fentanyl.

Florida baby dies after 17-year-old mother mixed formula with fentanyl ‘enough to kill 10 people’

The girl was arrested and is charged with “aggravated murder and possession of a controlled substance”.

Impact on social networks

On social networks, netizens expressed their disapproval of the vicious act of a mother who ended the life of her son, just a few months old.

Sheriff Leeper herself, shocked by the news, wondered what many do when they hear this news: “This is wrong… what mother would do this?”