Posted on 11/21/2023 12:49:28 AM PST by nickcarraway
The father of baby Phoenix Castro was denied bail on a felony child endangerment charge Monday, as new court filings helped explain the mystery of how the 3-month-old girl could have ingested a lethal dose of fentanyl while in her father’s care.
A crime lab analysis found fentanyl “all over” the pink-flowered onesie she was wearing when she died May 13, including around the neck area.
At the bail hearing, several family members fought back tears as they read letters pleading with Superior Court Judge Christopher Rudy to keep Phoenix’s father, David Castro, in jail, stressing he still has visitation rights with his two older children, now 3 and 4, who are living with their maternal grandmother. The baby’s mother, Emily De La Cerda, also died of a fentanyl overdose four months after Phoenix’s death.
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Needle? He’ll I’ll shoot him for free.
A baby given back to her drug-abusing dad died from a drugs overdose after lawmakers overturned a social workers' decision to take her into care....
“ Older children had previously been removed from Castro, who had eight earlier drug convictions, but Santa Clara County had recently changed its ‘threshold’ for removal, citing a commitment to ‘racial justice’.”
Liberal “justice”: Sacrifice a baby (After all, it’s just a post natal abortion.) to demonstrate your commitment to leftism and to get minority votes.
I am so glad I no longer live in Santa Clara County.
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