Couple had Uber deliver Narcan instead of calling 911 when baby died from an overdose
Edward Weiher and his fiancé, Alexa Balen were charged with first-degree murder in the death of their two-year-old daughter Trinity.
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The writing in that headline is more horrific than this crime
Are you serious? The 2 year old died of an overdose. The death could have been prevented by picking up the phone to a hospital instead of uber. The parents had their family living in abject squalor with carbon monoxide levels that should have rendered them unconcious within 20 minutes and rubbish, drugs, urine and feces strewn on the floor and surfaces. Their still living 6 year old tested positive for fentanyl and cocaine.
Despite all that other stuff, the fact that they're in the US and therefore calling for an ambulance would cost in the thousands probably had more bearing on the situation than them being terrible parents. I wonder how many small children have died due to preventable disease or injury with good, yet financially poor, parents who hesitated to call an ambulance.
I think it's more likely they weren't calling an ambulance because they didnt want to either have their drugs confiscated or be go to prison for possession
Both can be true. This is also why sane places have laws preventing paramedics from reporting drug use to the police.
I think its more this as well. Also, Medicaid, which they likely had, and their children definitely had, would cover ambulance.
Parents who don't call an ambulance for their child who needs an ambulance aren't good people.
Countries who make their citizens second guess calling an ambulance with the threat of crippling debt aren't good countries.
with carbon monoxide levels that should have rendered them unconcious within 20 minutes
That was just what the guy told police.
My bad, you're right, that's a small part of the wider horror of this situation though ..
Oh yeah, the whole thing is horrible. I just read that as light editorializing "if what he said was true, they'd all be unconscious, so he's probably full of shit and lying to cover his ass."
why do Lemmy users hate titles that aren't paragraphs? did yall watch too many of those animes with three-sentence titles?
