Bad granny in Baltimore Murders Grandchild With Methodone

Baltimore is the new Detroit. Case in point is the neglectful grandmother who rubbed methodone on her grandchildren’s gums to make them go to sleep. They were spending the night with her on July 4th. After watching fireworks, she rubbed the powerful narcotic on their gums because she had watched them long enough.

From RawStory here with hat tip to Robb:

A 50-year-old woman in Baltimore is charged with murder and child abuse after she rubbed methadone on her one-year-old grandson’s gums to make him sleep, causing a lethal overdose. According to WJZ, Baltimore’s CBS Channel 12, Towanda Reaves used the powerful synthetic opiate on both the boy and his two-year-old sister.

The children were visiting Reaves overnight for the Fourth of July when the incident took place. Neighbors told WJZ that they thought the children were exposed to the drug by accident, but according to police, Reaves confessed to giving them the powerful narcotic to make them sleep.

“She confirmed that she had given methadone to the children and put it on the gum lines of their mouths,” said Baltimore Police spokesperson Det. Jeremy Silbert.

Methadone is given to heroin addicts in order to manage their cravings for opiates and ease the symptoms of heroin withdrawal. Neighbors expressed shock that Reaves would do such a thing, calling her a doting and attentive grandmother.

Of course the reporters won’t ask WTF methodone was doing in the house or question whether or not someone in the house was on smack. Towanda’s idiotic daughter should be arrested for child neglect too for putting her kids in danger by leaving them in that home.