Deputies said that the first paramedics who arrived on the scene saw a needle still in the mother's arm.
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. — An Alabama woman is facing charges because sheriff’s deputies said she used drugs while pregnant and while in labor, killing her infant child.Deputies said Amanda Malpas admitted to using both heroin and methamphetamines throughout her pregnancy, and even during labor. “She admitted that when she felt the labor pains and felt the child breaching she did self-administer a large dose of heroin,” Sgt. Mark Bailey, with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, told.
“This is one of the cases you work on that you really are sometimes not prepared for and definitely do not want to be a part of. It’s very sad all the way around,” Bailey toldWhen asked by reporters if she had a message for her family,that Malpas has other children, but they are not in her custody.reports carries the same penalty as murder. Deputies said the charges could be upgraded to murder at a later date.
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