Riley Tehy Wormington, 23, has been charged with felony second-degree murder and two counts of felony child abuse, two counts of felony possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, felony maintaining a dwelling for a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
U.S. Marshals arrested Wormington in Colorado on February 18 for the death of her baby a year earlier in North Carolina.
Wormington left North Carolina and had a second baby while the death of her child was still under investigation.
WHKY reports:
On February 13, 2024, Mooresville Police Officers responded to 407 Ridge Avenue in Mooresville in reference to a medical call involving a child under two years of age. Despite lifesaving efforts, the child did not survive. Mooresville Police Department Detectives began an investigation into the child’s death. During the investigation, it was determined that the death was the result of fentanyl toxicity after the child ingested a lethal dose of the drug.
“A May 2023 study found that pediatric deaths from fentanyl increased ‘more than 30-fold’ between 2013 and 2021. It reported that fentanyl was implicated in 38 percent of fatal pediatric opioid poisonings, 5,194 of the 13,861, between 1999 and 2021,” Newsweek reports.
Wormington will be transported back to Iredell County, North Carolina, to face the charges.
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