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MAY 19, 2021
Wichita mom on trial for son’s methadone murder | The Wichita Eagle (kansas.com)
In the days before 2-year-old Zayden JayNesahkluah died in a South Broadway motel room after ingesting methadone, his mom asked her paternal grandmother to take him for the summer because he was “hard for her to handle.”
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That same day, Compass also sent text messages to Andrea Dixon, the executive director of a local family crisis ministry called Faith Builders, begging her to “see about something” that would help her with her son.
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Dixon arranged care for Zayden at a home in the country she thought “was a really good fit” where he would be with other children like him, she testified Tuesday.
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But Zayden never made it to the home.
That’s because three days later, the 2-year-old was dead in Room 19 of the Sunset Motel, 2328 S. Broadway, lying in a pool of vomit that was the same bright pink as his mother’s methadone. Reginald “Reggie” Whiters, a friend of Compass’ who paid for the motel room so the family had a place to sleep since the electricity was off at their own home, found the boy dead in bed when he woke shortly before check out time.
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Compass was supposed to store the methadone bottles in a locked box, out of the reach of children since it can be dangerous and even fatal in large enough doses, Center for Change employee Tevra Vann and medical director Gregory Lakin testified.
Compass was prescribed 60 milligrams of methadone a day. She knew the risks the drug posed to non-addicts from her conversations with clinic staff, from a written intake packet given to her when she joined the program and from warnings written on the methadone bottles, according to testimony.
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What remains unclear, though, from trial testimony is exactly when Zayden might have ingested the substance. The boy was lethargic, snoring loudly and largely unresponsive when Whiters saw him in Compass’ SUV before they got to the motel room, suggesting he may have swallowed it long before he laid down in the motel bed. Whiters testified that Compass explained Zayden’s condition that night by saying he was just tired from playing at the park earlier in the day, however.
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Once, she said, she saw Compass push Zayden across her living room and call him names.
“(She) told him to get away from her, that he was dumb. He was stupid and that he was retarded,” Lefors testified between sobs.
After shoving the boy, Lefors said she saw Compass coax her 3-year-old daughter into her lap and told her she “was a good girl” and her “best friend.”
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“I told her (if) she was having such a hard time with Zayden, she could give me Zayden,” Lefors testified.
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... Jurors this week have already seen crime scene photos and heard testimony from law enforcement employees who investigated the case, as well as from an emergency room doctor who evaluated Zayden but found no health issues after his mother took him to the hospital for what she described as seizure-like activity in the weeks before he died.
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Wichita mom on trial for son’s methadone murder | The Wichita Eagle (kansas.com)
In the days before 2-year-old Zayden JayNesahkluah died in a South Broadway motel room after ingesting methadone, his mom asked her paternal grandmother to take him for the summer because he was “hard for her to handle.”
[...]
That same day, Compass also sent text messages to Andrea Dixon, the executive director of a local family crisis ministry called Faith Builders, begging her to “see about something” that would help her with her son.
[...]
Dixon arranged care for Zayden at a home in the country she thought “was a really good fit” where he would be with other children like him, she testified Tuesday.
[...]
But Zayden never made it to the home.
That’s because three days later, the 2-year-old was dead in Room 19 of the Sunset Motel, 2328 S. Broadway, lying in a pool of vomit that was the same bright pink as his mother’s methadone. Reginald “Reggie” Whiters, a friend of Compass’ who paid for the motel room so the family had a place to sleep since the electricity was off at their own home, found the boy dead in bed when he woke shortly before check out time.
[...]
Compass was supposed to store the methadone bottles in a locked box, out of the reach of children since it can be dangerous and even fatal in large enough doses, Center for Change employee Tevra Vann and medical director Gregory Lakin testified.
Compass was prescribed 60 milligrams of methadone a day. She knew the risks the drug posed to non-addicts from her conversations with clinic staff, from a written intake packet given to her when she joined the program and from warnings written on the methadone bottles, according to testimony.
[...]
What remains unclear, though, from trial testimony is exactly when Zayden might have ingested the substance. The boy was lethargic, snoring loudly and largely unresponsive when Whiters saw him in Compass’ SUV before they got to the motel room, suggesting he may have swallowed it long before he laid down in the motel bed. Whiters testified that Compass explained Zayden’s condition that night by saying he was just tired from playing at the park earlier in the day, however.
[...]
Once, she said, she saw Compass push Zayden across her living room and call him names.
“(She) told him to get away from her, that he was dumb. He was stupid and that he was retarded,” Lefors testified between sobs.
After shoving the boy, Lefors said she saw Compass coax her 3-year-old daughter into her lap and told her she “was a good girl” and her “best friend.”
[...]
“I told her (if) she was having such a hard time with Zayden, she could give me Zayden,” Lefors testified.
[...]
... Jurors this week have already seen crime scene photos and heard testimony from law enforcement employees who investigated the case, as well as from an emergency room doctor who evaluated Zayden but found no health issues after his mother took him to the hospital for what she described as seizure-like activity in the weeks before he died.
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