A 23-year-old Palmdale girl will face a homicide cost within the 2023 overdose dying of her 2-year-old son, Los Angeles County authorities stated Monday.
Anaie Flores was charged with one rely of homicide and one county of kid abuse inflicting the dying of her son, Angel, in November 2023, based on a legal criticism.
Angel died after overdosing on fentanyl not noted by her mom, based on Deputy Dist. Atty. Jonathan Hatami, who’s prosecuting the case.
Flores was arrested Thursday by L.A. County sheriff’s deputies and held in lieu of $2-million bail, jail data present.
It was not instantly clear who was serving as Flores’ legal professional. Her arraignment was continued on Monday afternoon, based on Hatami.
Flores pleaded no contest to grand theft this yr and was sentenced to 2 years of probation in reference to a March housebreaking, courtroom data present.
Though it’s uncommon for prosecutors to cost adults with homicide within the circumstances of unintended overdoses involving kids of their care, it isn’t unprecedented. Hatami is pursuing an analogous case involving the dying of a 17-month-old boy in Lancaster.
“Fentanyl is kind of like a loaded gun. Should you go away a loaded gun in your own home and it’s not locked up correctly and you’ve got kids, and a toddler will get ahold of that loaded gun and shoots themselves, the mother or father must be accountable,” Hatami stated in an interview with The Occasions this yr. “That’s acutely aware disregard for the security of others.”
A minimum of 11 kids youthful than 5 have suffered fentanyl-related deaths in California in 2023, based on the state well being division.
