Tragic: 9-Month-Old Baby Dies After Being Injected With Massive Amounts of Cocaine and Heroin By Babysitters
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Jason Howerton
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Oscar Sanchez-Rivera, 24, and Viameri Santana-Berrios, 27 (Source: Daily Mail)
A Philadelphia couple will stand trial in the death of a 9-month-old baby who died of a drug overdose after being injected with massive amounts of heroin and cocaine.
In a horrifying discovery, Doctors found “track marks” — bruises left from needle punctures — on the child’s hands and feet, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The child’s aunt, Viameri Santana-Berrios, 27, and Oscar Sanchez-Rivera, 24, were looking after baby Milton Galarza-Rojas when he died.
It is unclear exactly much cocaine and heroin was injected into the baby but a medical examiner reportedly told a Philadelphia court that Rojas had so many drugs in his body that he compared him to a “drug mule.”
Milton Galarza-Rojas (Source: Daily Mail)
The Daily Mail has more on the disturbing details of the the 9-month-old’s death:
Paramedic Dale Schroder told the court that he recognized ‘track marks’ normally found on drug addicts when he was trying to revive the baby.
He said he had been called to the home last July after the baby was reported as being unresponsive.
Schroeder said Santana-Berrios led him to a bedroom where he saw Sanchez-Rivera standing over the body of a baby who was naked and lying on a towel on the bed.
The child was cool to the touch, pale, and unresponsive, and Schroeder’s said his efforts failed to revive the child.
Schroeder said he and his partner took the child to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, where he was pronounced dead.At the hospital, the paramedic added, Milton’s internal body temperature was already too low to register on a rectal thermometer.
Medical examiner Lieberman Edwin said an autopsy showed eight needle marks on the feet and hands as well as heroin and cocaine still undigested in the child’s stomach.
Lieberman said he had never seen this level of drugs before in a child.
Both defendants gave statements to detectives that claimed the baby, who had a history of breathing problems, began snoring, stopped breathing, and turned blue.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says defense attorneys strenuously contested the charges during Tuesday’s preliminary hearing. The couple is charged with murder, conspiracy and other counts in the July 26 death of Rojas.
Sanchez-Rivera’s attorney Michael Medway said it made no sense for him to inject and kill a child that he and his girlfriend were only watching for her cousin. ”Why? Because the kid is too much of a pain?” Medway asked.
(Source: Daily Mail)
Further, Santana-Berrios’ lawyer said that neither autopsy nor witnesses could show that his client injected drugs into the baby.
Prosecutors, however, cited a medical examiner’s testimony that the heroin and cocaine had to have been ingested or injected within six hours of death.
“For 391/2 hours, this baby was in the care of these two people,” Assistant District Attorney Kirn argued. “Take a look at the math and at the level of care and how they acted. The body has track marks. Track marks on a baby.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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BurntHills
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:25pmthey won’t last long in prison. Babykillers never do.
Report Post »MadinIllinois
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:36pmI say – an eye for an eye! Let’s drag them to Gitmo – inject them with massive doses of drugs, but not enough to kill them and let the detainees finish the job – I bet they won’t last long and I hope they suffer the way that innocent child did till their last breath !!
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:11pmTime to give these MO-FO’s their own needle
Report Post »the_truth_or_not
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:19pm@MADINILINOIS
You might be forgetting, the detainees in Guantonemo are mostly Militant Islamic Extremist’s. These people kill for much less than being an infidel. With the last name of Rojas(Rohaus) this child would most certainly be concidered an infidel in the eyes of the Militant Islamic Extremist’s.
With that being said, this is truly one of the most disgiusting horrific stories I have heard since I dont know when and dont want to spend the time thinking of vial acts to figure it out. My prayers go to the childs parents and family and am certain that GOD has welcomed the most inocent of his children home; a child. May GOD have mercy on their soul. I just hope the courts hand down what they should receive. The death penalty. They should be returned to the LORD for the LORD to figure out what is wrong with them. Not retrobution!
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:21pmLook at the biothes face in the mug shot. EVIL
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:42pmI’M thinking a Rope and a Trailer Hitch..down a gravel road..
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:39pmI bet if they look, they will also find, food stamps, free phones, welfare checks, section 8 vouchers, Medicaid accounts………and some more heroin and coke, those poor vulnerable people…….or as Micheal Berry calls em…..VUNNABALZ……..
Report Post »CutThePuppetStrings
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 12:01amThey will still be able to vote for Obama thanks to Eric Holder?
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 1:23am@ Detroit Paperboy
Report Post »You may be right about the welfare, etc. If the drugs were bought with welfare money, then the old line that “society is to blame” would have some basis.
loriann12
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 6:34amYou can’t send them to Gitmo….it’s a resort there. you’re given really good food, exercise, ball fields, you’re able to practice your religion (if your Muslim). I was stationed in Bermuda and their Prison served bread and water and you sleep on a concrete slab with a thin mattress. You got 15 minutes outside a day, and nothing else, you were in your cell the rest of the time. If you wanted something besides bread and water, you had to have a relative bring it in. I know because I was stationed there in the Navy, and a girl I knew had a boyfriend come to live with her and he got caught with drugs on the plane. This was in the 80′s though, so I don‘t know if they’re still like that. That’s the sort of prisons we need here…none of this you get a chance to buff up in a state of the art gym room, you get 3 hours outside, you have a TV, cable, etc.
Report Post »nocomment
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 6:40amIt is a myth that ‘baby killers, rapists, child molesters, etc‘ don’t last in prison. Or that everyone is raping each other. Total bullcrap.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 8:45amI looked at that poor little guy’s face for a long time.
Words fail me…
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 8:59amI bet dimes for dollars that the baby accidently ate their heroin and this brain trust tried to counter act it by giving the baby cocaine instead of going to the hospital and facing the police. Hope they rot in jail.
Report Post »mattmo79
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 12:04pmTime for a hanging!
Report Post »dan182j
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 1:08pmPlease say you mean that.
Report Post »DisgruntledInClinton
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 3:32pmOh, yeah, I want more beaners coming over the border. This how they act?
Report Post »IIIcorp
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:50pmDon’t even send them to prison. A .45 to the head
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 6:45pm@DetroitPaperBoy as always you hit the nail right on the head. I would bet my entire next paycheck that indeed you will find that these two received food stamps & every other sort of free thing one can imagine. I bet the baby was receiving WIC checks that never reached it’s poor pathetic little mouth. Instead mommy & dad ate the Honey Nut Cheerios whenever they were sober enough to shovel down food until their next fix. C’mon liberals..do some research & take the Jaylew challenge & determine the fact that these 2 pieces of human trash parents were recipients of public assistance. Argue with me that my posit is absurd & that most food stamp recipients are just the millions of losers in George Bush’s National Lottery from years ago. Dope costs big money & when one is not burdened with the same financial load as those of us who actually DO have to pay for our food, shelter & everything else….then voila’ being an injector of high powered drugs becomes just that much easier to accomplish. The poor little boy never even had a chance & instead of me trying to concoct and devise punishments fit for these 2 idiot parents. I would prefer instead to rely on the ethereal hoping beyond measure that the face of their helpless hopeless son haunts the mother & father every single remaining day of their miserable lives. Like Casper an unfriendly ghost with their eyes open or closed may they see their sons face. A kinder God you say in smarm? No in fact He can be merciless. Know that.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:24pm.
Report Post »“For 391/2 hours, this baby was in the care of these two people,”
1. Where was mom?
2. Who leaves their baby in the care of crack heads?
3. Are they illegals? I‘m just sayin’
4. Philadelphia. Nuff said. (democrat paradise).
hayesstephen
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:18pmAre they illegals!!! Understatement of the last five hundred years!!! Oh all of you twits stop posting what should be done to these two monsters, you sound like twelve year olds. Don”t get too excited about them going to trail. The defense team will fight like crazy to get as many White Liberal Trash on the jury, You get enough of them and they‘ll find these monster not guilty because they left mexico to escape the grinding poverty and they done jobs that Americans won’t do like injecting heron in to a baby.
Report Post »Just saying.
mtnvortex
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:29pmFirst off, this story is a tragedy.
Second, I would say that these two are Puerto Rican, which means they ARE NOT ILLEGAL.
Report Post »Calling them illegals only makes you look ignorant.
And I am not a liberal…AT ALL.
Just saying.
wmgill
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 1:37am@Secret Squirrel
“For 391/2 hours, this baby was in the care of these two people,”
1. Where was mom?
2. Who leaves their baby in the care of crack heads?
3. Are they illegals? I‘m just sayin’
4. Philadelphia. Nuff said. (democrat paradise).
In the end the answers to these question mean nothing. As adults it is our duty to protect childern, not hurt them. There are a whole lot of people who let this baby down. The parents the babysitters and anyone else who knew that this child may have been in danger. After 39 hours you can bet the neighbours knew something was amiss. These 2 animals definitely knew. Most of all parents leaving a child with a babysitter for almost 2 days. I know I would not be able to do that. I didnt see anything about the parents coming hime either. A lot of people let this baby down and it started long before he was left with the people who murdered him.
First 2 question deserve an answer. Number 3 does it matter. I bet being illegal has nothing to do with loving and caring for kids. (Just saying)
Report Post »Number 4. You must be a moron if you think being in Philadelphia had anything to do with this. Its a city that it just another place on the map. I bet the place you live at a few skeletons to. Maby you should think before you comment next time. Nuff said.
kaydeebeau
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 6:18am“Sanchez-Rivera’s attorney Michael Medway said it made no sense for him to inject and kill a child that he and his girlfriend were only watching for her cousin”….so I suppose the 9 month old injected himself?
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 1:26pm@WMGILL
I would argue the responsibility was between the parents and the babysitters what happened to that poor tike. It was not mine, societies, or the ‘village’. Once the crime is committed then the responsibility is to exact justice and ensure full punishment is received.
Citing the responsibility should be spread throughout the community absolves those who are truly at fault. That is the liberal mantra that attempts to deflect responsibility from those that perpetrate. Bastardization of morality. Spreading that through the collective will eventually poison the collective. Destroy the concept of the collective and return to individual liberty AND responsibility.
Report Post »wmgill
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 3:49pm@Leader1776 Whe I said “The parents the babysitters and anyone else who knew that this child may have been in danger” this is what I was saying. The parents were responsible. The babysitters wer responsible. Ther is no argument there.The part where I said anyone who knew this child may have been in danger, let me explain. Only a junkie would leave there baby with 2 junkies for almost 2 days. Sense people do not live in a vacuum others knew these parents wer unfit to raise this child. It may have been their neighbours, friends or family but someone knew and did nothing. If I am at a friends house and see the beating the crap out of there children (beating not spanking their is a difference) I will step in and stop them. I will also do my best to prevent it from happening again. I cannot stand by and do nothing while someone who is not able to defend themself is being abused like this. I did not say it is was the “societies, or the ‘village’” or your fault but you can bet others knew that baby was in danger and did nothing. As for punishment I am a big fan of hanging but lethal injection will have to do in this case.
Report Post »I do not believe that responsibility shoud fall on the whole community only those who knew and did nothing. If you did not know then this means you are not responsible.Someone must stand and say I will not allow this to happen. If not you,who will it be?
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke.
bersuchb
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:19pmInject them with the same mixture, and keep it up until they die. I will be more than happy, if the liberals can’t do it. Then, we will send their corpses back to mexico, where they can rot.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:14amI am sure they would love all those drugs you are suggesting. Lock them away from drugs is much more of a punishment. Gotta have my fix!
Report Post »2late4you
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:19pmThese animals need to be put down!
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:06pmyup
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:51pmI agree.
Report Post »Optimist4now
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:25amBarbed-wire enima!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:47amThe world is getting sicker by the day.
Report Post »Crazyotto
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:18pmThis country is lost…What has happened to humanity? This is what a lack of faith and adherence to statism gets you.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:16amThis country has gone to the dogs?? Ya think!
Report Post »G man
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:16pmPliers and a blow torch.
Report Post »JediKnight
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:23pmThumbs up to this. Make it last as long as possible. Resuscitate them multiple times if necessary.
Report Post »highcarry
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 10:15ama long drop and a short rope.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:15pmThey are the “good people who just need a chance.”
No sense securing our borders.
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:15pmI saw the headline and immediately thought “probably because the police were able to raid the house” but it gives no motive other than getting rid of the burden of having a baby for her cousin. WTF Just when I don’t think humanity can stoop to a new low, something like this happens and the bar is dropped lower. In 5 years we‘ll all probably so desensitized that we won’t even be shocked at stories like this. I’m trying to be optimistic but damn it we got a Marxist in the White House and babysitters injecting infants with several speedballs!!
Report Post »ChileRelleno
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:15pmPray for convictions, refuse protective custody (solitary) & let the inmates have their sense of justice with’em… The inmates know that true justice is death, even if the liberal courts don’t.
Report Post »dcwike
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:14pmWhat a HORRID thing to do to a helpless BABY! It’s SICK. I can’t say more. :(
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:45pm…and he was so beautiful, too. It just breaks your heart.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 12:21amHe was a beautiful baby….This is just so awful….They need to suffer big time
Report Post »BelindaB
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:14pmKILL both of these worthless POS, slowly, and PAINFULLY!!!!
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:13pm…
Report Post »This murder happened a year ago (July 26).
Why haven’t these two murderers already been tried, and executed?
normalmom
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:28pmBecause our court system is broken. The guilty are allowed to sit and get treated better than some of us regular folks. In the past these people would have already been tried and sentenced now they get three squares a day and tv and gym access that we pay for. The judicial system needs to be torn apart and put back together correctly, no more petty lawsuits, no more money for spilling coffee on yourself, ect.
Report Post »Question with BOLDness
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:57pmAgreed! But not just the justice system…. the WHOLE system. All the way from the top down. Change the way we do EVERYTHING. Government workers pay needs lowered, by at least half; foreign aid (needs to HALT); government fraud and waste (medicaid/medicare), military waste in spending (I’ve seen it)…. But we need to build up our military and increase their pay.
Report Post »mountainmover101
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:13pmGeez I guess the stereotype of Hispanics and drugs is true….imagine that.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:12pmWhile I am ProLife there are times that I truly believe that some retroactive abortions are called for and fully justified! These two monsters for example.
Report Post »rickbob
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:11pmTwo more sets of genes that need to be expunged from the gene pool. . .
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:11pmlets be fair.. druggies are druggies n will do druggiee things. next let the punishment fir the crime.. inject them both wiht 1000.000 units of LYE see how long they last before they enter HELL for murder… do unto others rings true.. as well as thier families must FORK OVER cash to the family of said victim now be liek a dalek n EXTERMINATE them both
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:10pmMat 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:17pmI hope that is true.
Report Post »angeleyes63
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:10pmFundamental change, welcome to the george soros opos open borders anything goes America.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:09pmRest with the Lord little one; you had little time here on earth, may God deliver recompense upon those who killed you.
Report Post »inthealpine
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:09pmNeedle, bleach, neck.
Report Post »Roll them in a ditch.
TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:12pmWaste of a needle.
Report Post »Just make the two drink it straight from the jug.
Meyvn
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:08pmDeath sentences are appropriate here.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:14pmNope.
Report Post »Just plead guilty and they are garuanteed two hot meals and a bed for the next twenty years if they behave nice.
Meyvn
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:19pm@TelepromoterNChief: and that’s probably the motive.
Report Post »CutThePuppetStrings
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 12:15amEric Holder/Obama will just pardon them…need more voters
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:06pmWhoever did this needs to die.
Report Post »The child is in heaven … praise God for jos grace and mercy for children who are victims of evil
objectivetruth
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 10:13amThank you.Yours and another poster have been the sanist posts I’ve read.Whoever is responsible.The other poster suggested that the baby accidently got into their heroin and they shot them with coke as a counter to avoid the police.I understand everyones anger its just that we need to make sure its focused on the right culprit.There is no room for error in a civilian execution.What most posters on here can’t seem to fathom, Is that the same monsters that do these type things, have no compunction of setting up others to take the fall.Does anyone seem to think that the rash of missing and murdered babies is all the faults of the parents or family members?It isn’t.Did anyone stop to think that these two could have been drugged without their knowledge?Makes entry into the house easy.The perps could do pretty much what they desired ,including kill a baby, and set them up for the fall.How about jon benay ramsey,the missing girl form arizona and scores of others?While the MO is slightly different the mind set isn’t.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:06pmOMG, what kind of monster could do this to a baby?
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:06pmMay these two pieces of $#!+ rot in hell along with every single individual who had a hand in forwarding the Obama health TAX.
Report Post »anomnomnommm
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:24pmWow.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:03pmSad, and sickening.
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“It is unclear exactly much cocaine and heroin was injected”
Edit needed.
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