Drugs in Breast Milk Killed Baby, Police Say — and Pa. Mom Is Charged

A Pennsylvania mother has been charged with killing her infant son after allegedly breastfeeding him with milk containing methamphetamine and other drugs, PEOPLE confirms.

“R.J. ingested the combination of fatal drugs through breast milk,” the medical examiner says, according to the affidavit.

Jones and her mother, who was also in the house, began administering CPR to the infant at the direction of the dispatcher, the affidavit says.

He was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:29 a.m.

Bucks County District Attorney’s Office

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However, Jones also said she had started giving her son formula three days earlier because the infant wasn’t getting enough milk from breastfeeding, the affidavit said.

On the morning the child died, Jones told authorities she tried to breastfeed him when he woke up at 3 a.m. crying because she was too tired to go downstairs and prepare a bottle of formula, the affidavit alleges.

Jones appeared in court Friday for an initial arraignment where a judge set bail at $3 million cash.

Jones remains held in the Bucks County Jail. She is scheduled to return to court on July 23. She has not yet entered a plea.

source: people.com