Woman charged in 2-year-old son’s fatal overdose in Washington state
By Joe Kemp | NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | Jul 17, 2014
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A Washington state woman was arrested nearly two years after her 2-year-old son, who'd been allowed to drink marijuana bong water, died from a fatal dose of methamphetamine, authorities said.
Alyia Iverson, 26, was collared on one count of first-degree manslaughter Wednesday, after investigators found she allowed her son, Nathan, to gulp water from the bong before he died in December 2012, The News Tribune reported. Several people were doing drugs in the Spanaway home — located just south Tacoma — when Iverson watched her son drink the water, court papers show. The mother put the child to bed, but then placed him on the floor when he became fussy, according to the documents. The little boy was not breathing when she checked on him a couple of hours later. She called 911, but the child died before emergency workers arrived. An autopsy later determined that Nathan died from an overdose and had enough meth and THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, to kill an adult, the paper reported. The state's Department of Social and Health Services had been monitoring Iverson since 2009 after several complaints that she was mistreating Nathan and his sister, prosecutors said. The children were removed from the home in 2011, but Iverson managed to regain custody, KING-TV reported. Iverson pleaded not guilty after she was arraigned Wednesday. She was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 bail. |