Posted on 09/08/2023 9:52:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Debate over enforcement comes as the country battles with how to effectively diminish the use of the highly accessible and extremely deadly drug
Madison Bernard climbed into bed before dawn with her toddler, Charlotte, who was asleep next to a nightstand strewn with straws, burned tinfoil and a white powder.
Hours later, the mother woke and found her daughter struggling to breathe, according to investigators who described the scene in court documents.
After being rushed in an ambulance to a hospital, the 15-month-old girl died from a fentanyl overdose. Her mother and father, whom authorities said brought the drugs into their California home, were charged with murder and are awaiting trial.
The couple has pleaded not guilty but are part of a growing number of parents across the U.S. being charged amid an escalating opioid crisis that has claimed an increasing number of children as collateral victims.
Also see: Man gets 15 years for dealing deadly dose of fentanyl to Tustin teen
Some 20 states have so-called “drug-induced homicide” laws, which allow prosecutors to press murder or manslaughter charges against anyone who supplies or exposes a person to drugs causing a fatal overdose. The laws are intended to target drug dealers.
In California, where the Legislature has failed to pass such laws, prosecutors in at least three counties are turning to drunk driving laws to charge parents whose children die from fentanyl overdose. It’s a unique approach that will soon be tested in court as the cases head to trial.
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But parents can kill them with impunity before birth.
Hypocrites.
“...into their California home”
I guess the rule in California is that it’s ok for the doctor to kill your baby, but not for you to kill your baby?
Charge Biden and Mayorkas with murder too.
Yup.
people are immoral, valueless, unethical and uncaring....sadly its getting to be the majority.
Talk about taking the easy way out. How about…
* Hold Mexico and China accountable
* Get serious about defeating the cartels
* Severely punish all pols on the take
* End the human flow over the southern border (lots of drugs, cartel people, and miles)
* Execute drug dealers
* Reopen mental hospitals
* Hold people involuntarily in mental hospitals
There is zero will for any of that so the problem will continue. Going after a few parents is less than a spit in the ocean.
As much as I agree on the mental wards re-opening...the colossal amount of care and numbers would make it unmanageable. Just out of California....between nutcases, low IQ folks, and druggies...it’s probably in the range of 300,000 people that you’d have to bundle up and send off.
Don’t forget Gyorgy Schwartz and Klaus Schwab!
Yes, it’s a couple of orders of magnitude worse than when the ACLU and other leftists shut down the mental hospitals 40 years ago. But, if we had the same capacity we had back then, we could get the worst of the worst off the streets. Letting the insane live on the violent and filthy streets is horribly inhumane.
And yet they attempt to make mandatory injections of substances labeled ‘vaccine.’ I am not talking about proven medicine. I am old enough to remember the polio vaccine in a sugar cube. Before the Deep State changed the definition of vaccine, America was able to use real science against polio, smallpox, etc.
“ it’s probably in the range of 300,000 people that you’d have to bundle up and send off.”
You’re off by a factor of 10, on the low side.
Pay per view ...?
All proceeds go the victims family ?
Or just monetize the video ... with a few adds?
Proceeds go to ?
...hmmm I'm with you ... just a few details to work out ...
OR maybe a live cam ... as they slowly die chained to a tree in the woods..?
Subscription based ..?
hmmm ... a lot of details to work out ...
🧐 and yet those who ALLOW the deadly drug to flow into this country get away Scott Free!
I'm in full agreement but wish I could disagree.
Add “Profits” to “Allow”.
The truth is that America doesn’t have a fentanyl problem. America has a character problem.
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we are wheRe they would like us to be, addicted, zoned out, depressed, high all the time, dependent, not working, hands out, or the ultimate............ DEAD
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