Buzzin Disgrace

For the second time in as many weeks another baby is in the news after dying from suspected methadone poisoning, what the hell is wrong with people!

14-month old Holly Agius, died after she was taken to hospital in Gloucestershire after repeatedly being given the heroin substitute.  The mother, named as Bonny Richards, 27 and her partner John Davies, 31, have admitted two counts of child cruelty with both being bailed and are expected to be sentenced next month.

Earlier this month a lesbian couple were jailed for giving methadone to a crying baby.  The drug addict mother Susan Taylor, put the heroin substitute on the dummy of her 10-week old son to stop him crying.

The baby boy fortunately survived but doctors have said that it is too early to say if there will be any lasting effects after a huge quantity of the drug was discovered in the baby’s urine.

The Edinburgh mother was jailed for three years while her lesbian partner Lynn Cowan was jailed for 10 months for not telling medics that the baby had ingested methadone.

The two woman were said to be watching television when Cowan noticed that the baby wasn’t breathing, his face was grey and his lips were blue.  When an ambulance arrived the baby only let out a gasp before suffering fits on the way to the hospital where he was kept in intensive care, thankfully making a recovery over the following 36 hours.

His mother admitted to rolling his dummy around in the medicine cup used for her daily dose of methadone but it was said that she had no concept of knowing how dangerous methadone was to a young baby.

Unbelievable, should drug addicts be allowed to have children, I don’t think so!  The mothers three year sentence she was given was to follow the 26-month sentence she was currently serving for snatching the bag of a 66-year-old lady at knife-point!  What a great mother she would have been, hopefully this little boy will now get some chance of a normal life away from his scum of a mother!