F**KING TRAGIC FOR EVERYONE –
Dec. 21, 2024 – A sheriff’s deputy rushed into a trailer home last summer north of Troy to find a newborn girl not breathing. “Fentanyl caplets and buttons were throughout the entire house.” “The prevailing thought was, the fentanyl could have gotten into the formula, the fentanyl could have been on the pacifier. It could have been on the clothing,” Wood said. “Because fentanyl can come through the skin or it can be ingested.
“Ultimately, we know the parents exposed the child to the drugs, and the drugs killed the child,” Wood said.
A report by the Missouri Department of Social Services found that the number of fentanyl-related child deaths of children under the age of 5 has gone up by over 500%.
“I was shocked,” Wood said of that report’s findings. “This is entirely preventable, and so we’re moving forward with a very strong stance against people using drugs in front of their children.”
Wood said police found a pill press in the home and suspect the residents were using meth, cutting it with fentanyl and repackaging it for distribution.
