A Santa Cruz County mom is going through felony neglect costs after her 18-month-old child died of a attainable fentanyl overdose.
On July 28, the Santa Cruz Police Division responded to Dignity Well being Dominican Hospital for a report of a deceased toddler who was introduced in by her mom, 38-year-old Korisa Woll, in accordance with a information launch.
When officers arrived on the hospital they met with Woll and noticed the deceased toddler.
The division’s investigators who had been instantly known as in realized the kid handed away whereas in Woll’s care at their residence within the metropolis of Santa Cruz.
The county coroner took possession of the deceased youngster, and the outcomes of a whole post-mortem are pending. However in accordance with the district lawyer’s workplace, early post-mortem outcomes confirmed a “presumptive optimistic” for cocaine and fentanyl in her system. An official reason behind loss of life has not been accomplished.
Woll was later booked into the Santa Cruz County Jail on two costs of felony youngster endangerment, one with enhancement for nice bodily harm to a baby youthful than 5 years outdated, plus a further misdemeanor for proof destruction, the Mercury Information reported.
The Santa Cruz County District Legal professional’s Workplace didn’t reply to The Occasions’ request for remark earlier than publication.
The district lawyer’s workplace advised the Mercury Information the newborn, who they’re referring to as “Zhorriah Doe,” was discovered lifeless Sunday in a mattress together with her sleeping 4-year-old brother.
Santa Cruz police Det. Robert Caposio stated that Woll had taken her youngster “to a identified drug space and a residence therein.” Woll’s alleged neglect of her youngster “immediately led to her loss of life,” the Mercury Information reported.
The Mercury Information reported that Knoll, her kids and her child’s father had been just lately homeless till the daddy died of a fentanyl overdose in April. Woll took her kids to dwell together with her dad and mom in Scotts Valley atfter his loss of life till July 16. Woll’s dwelling scenario past the July date is unknown.
The district lawyer’s workplace’s investigation is ongoing and Woll’s preliminary arraignment on the Santa Cruz County Superior Court docket was delayed till Aug. 7.
