Towanda Reaves has admitted to rubbing Methadone on the toddler's gums to make him sleep
She also rubbed the powerful narcotic on the gums of a granddaughter only three months older, the girl luckily survived
Poisoning happened during a July 4 visit to granny's house
A Baltimore grandmother has been accused of poisoning her 17-month-old grandson to death with Methadone.
Towanda Reaves, 50, has been charged with murder and child abuse after admitting to police that she rubbed the powerful drug on the gums of two of her grandchildren so they would go to sleep during a July 4 visit. The other grandchild, a girl born three months after the deceased boy, survived the dose.
Normally given to heroin addicts to help them overcome their addictions, Methadone can also be used as a painkiller.
Police investigation the toddler’s death initially operated under the assumption it was an accident, according to WJZ, but the guilt-ridden grandmother eventually fessed up.
‘She confirmed that she had given methadone to the children and put it on the gum lines of their mouths,’ Detective Jeremy Silbert, Baltimore City Police, told WJZ.
Reaves told investigators she put her grandchildren to sleep around 8pm on July 4, according to reports. She could still hear them breathing when she woke up around 2amto turn off the air conditoner, one of the toddlers was unresponsive by 4am, causing her to call 911.
Aadyn Overton was pronounced dead at a local hospital less than an hour later, reported ABC 2.
When the same hospital received a visit from a baby girl that tested positive for methadone, the hospital called police, according to ABC 2. She is expected to make be okay, WJZ reported.
Neighbors were shocked to learn the ‘doting’ granny had killed her grandchild.
‘She really took care of them. As far as I can see, she wasn’t a bad person,’ one neighbor told WJZ.
Another neighbor, also a grandmother, was in disbelief.
‘As a grandmother myself, I just can’t imagine it. I just can’t imagine,’ the woman told WJZ.
The deranged granny was arrested August 1 after without incident and faces a second degree murder charge, as well as a litany of child abuse and assault charges, according to reports. Reaves is still in custody.
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Titus 2: 1But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 2That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Isaiah 32:9Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10Many days and years shall ye be , ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
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