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couple have been accused of killing a nine-month-old baby boy by
injecting him with heroin and cocaine. 24 year old Oscar Sanchez-Rivera,
and 27 year old Viameri Santana-Berrios, were babysitting the boy when
he died from a drug overdose. Doctors found needle marks on his hands
and feet as well as undigested heroin and cocaine in his body. WTH!
A medical examiner told a court in Philadelphia that the young
victim, Milton Rojas, had so many drugs in his body that he likened him
to a drug mule – the slang for someone who smuggles drugs in their body.
The shocking details of the baby boy’s death were revealed at a
preliminary hearing in Philadelphia where a judge ordered
Sanchez-Rivera, to stand trial on murder.
His girlfriend Santana-Berrios will go on trial on third-degree
murder charges following a five hour hearing into the circumstances of
the boy’s death.
Medical examiner Lieberman Edwin said an autopsy showed eight needle
marks on the feet and hands as well as heroin and cocaine still
undigested in the child’s stomach. Lieberman said he had never seen
this level of drugs before in a child. Both defendants gave statements
to detectives that claimed the baby, who had a history of breathing
problems, began snoring, stopped breathing, and turned blue.
The judge held Santana-Berrios, a mother of two, on third-degree murder and a related charge and she was given bail of $150,000.
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