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Granby woman facing charge after toddler dies from ingesting methadone pill (Joplin Globe)
more at link aboveGRANBY, Mo. A Granby woman, Elizabeth Farnam, 33, is facing a murder charge in the overdose death of her 22-month-old son, Logan Crow, who is believed to have ingested a methadone pill that she dropped in church.
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Sheriffs Detective Mike Barnett wrote in the affidavit that Farnam admitted that she takes methadone without a prescription.
Barnett also interviewed two other family members. One said hed seen Farnam drop a pill while they were in church on June 24 with Logan sitting on her lap. She looked for the pill and could not find it, even with the help of a woman who was sitting behind them.
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Prosecutor Jake Skouby said the mother was charged under the felony murder rule in Missouri. Had she not been committing that crime, then the child would not have got hold of the methadone, Skouby said.
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