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Baby's fentanyl overdose death puts parents, and alleged supplier, in prosecutors' crosshairs - Los Angeles Times
Baby Leo spent the early hours of Sept. 18, 2017, the way he usually did, snuggled up next to his parents in bed.
Except that morning he didn’t wake up.
Toxicology tests showed fatal levels of fentanyl in his bloodstream and stomach.
The likely source, authorities say, was his father’s little blue pills that had apparently been in the bed with the sleeping family that morning.
Leo Holz, only 10 months old, was among the 81 victims of a fatal fentanyl overdose in San Diego County last year.
The district attorney’s office is now seeking to hold his parents — a couple with a history of drug abuse — responsible for the death.
The parents were charged in May with child endangerment likely to produce great bodily harm or death. They have pleaded not guilty and remain jailed.
They are also being held on probation violations in a number of unrelated cases, including robbery, theft and assault, according to the jail records.
Baby Leo spent the early hours of Sept. 18, 2017, the way he usually did, snuggled up next to his parents in bed.
Except that morning he didn’t wake up.
Toxicology tests showed fatal levels of fentanyl in his bloodstream and stomach.
The likely source, authorities say, was his father’s little blue pills that had apparently been in the bed with the sleeping family that morning.
Leo Holz, only 10 months old, was among the 81 victims of a fatal fentanyl overdose in San Diego County last year.
The district attorney’s office is now seeking to hold his parents — a couple with a history of drug abuse — responsible for the death.
The parents were charged in May with child endangerment likely to produce great bodily harm or death. They have pleaded not guilty and remain jailed.
They are also being held on probation violations in a number of unrelated cases, including robbery, theft and assault, according to the jail records.
