A woman called 911 asking for help for her 14-month-old baby. The police arrived and took the boy to hospital, but he sadly died.

What happened to little Karson?

An autopsy, Fox News explained, revealed that Ashley Malloy’s son died of “complications resulting from exposure to fentanyl.”

But how come he was exposed to the drug that the DEA says has swept the United States?

Investigators “found white powder on a blanket and sheet in the bedroom where Karson had slept.”

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

Fentanyl, other drugs and justice

Malloy is charged with “drug possession in addition to manslaughter”.

Univision and other US media reported that Karson’s mother pleaded guilty to taking her child’s life.

After calling asking for help for the baby and beginning the investigation, “the discovery of a drug cache worth $700,000” was reached, Fox News broadcast on August 31, 2023.

The events were shot in Maine, a state in the United States.

But it’s not all for Malloy: According to her lawyer, the woman “didn’t understand the risk her son was running (before the drug)”, given the reaction, they point her to “criminal negligence”.

As for the link to the localized drug (fentanyl, methamphetamine and crack), her legal representative said this 22-year-old woman was “an accomplice, not an active participant.”

Milk formula mix with fentanyl

The case of the Maine woman and her dead baby came to light less than two months after another was registered in Florida.

The nine-month-old died after his mother mixed the powerful medicine into his formula: milk.

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

“The child had enough fentanyl in his system to kill ten people,” revealed the autopsy, published by El Universo on July 14, 2023. (JO)