{"id":102073,"date":"2017-05-11T23:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T03:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=102073"},"modified":"2017-05-11T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T03:40:24","slug":"edmonton-police-charge-mom-after-11-day-old-baby-girl-dies-from-methamphetamine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/11\/edmonton-police-charge-mom-after-11-day-old-baby-girl-dies-from-methamphetamine\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton police charge mom after 11 day old baby girl dies from methamphetamine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 31-year-old Edmonton woman has been charged with second-degree murder after her 11-day-old daughter died from an methamphetamine overdose. (Photo: Kurt Bauschardt\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

EDMONTON\u2014A 31-year-old Edmonton woman has been charged with second-degree murder after her 11-day-old daughter died from an methamphetamine overdose.<\/p>\n

Michelle Rice was arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree murder.<\/p>\n

Police spokesman Scott Pattison called the case \u201chorrific.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all have children,\u201d he said at a news conference. \u201cThose are traumatic events, especially when it’s an 11-day-old child. Investigators are working on behalf of someone who is vulnerable and unable to defend themself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police were called to a home on March 29 for a report of a baby not breathing. The medical examiner’s office contacted police on April 6 after autopsy and toxicology tests confirmed the baby died from a lethal dose of the drug.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe medical examiner has stated that there are two ways that the baby could have ingested the methamphetamine; that’s either anally or orally,\u201d Pattison said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur understanding (from the medical examiner) of that level of methamphetamine, that couldn’t have been administered \u2014 that lethal dose \u2014 through a woman’s breast milk, specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pattison said Rice is a single mother who is \u201ccurrently in a relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has a young boy who is unharmed and is now in the care of another family member,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe he’s with the biological father.\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman was not known to police, Pattison said. He wasn’t able to say whether Children’s Services was involved with the family.<\/p>\n

Homicide detectives would like to speak with several other people who visited the residence in the 11 days prior to the baby’s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re not sure exactly who visited the house but we’re assuming they were family friends, possibly family members,\u201d Pattison said. \u201cThere may have even been home-care workers, that kind of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON\u2014A 31-year-old Edmonton woman has been charged with second-degree murder after her 11-day-old daughter died from an methamphetamine overdose. Michelle …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[17521],"class_list":["post-102073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-methamphetamine","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}