(FW) – Police in California has arrested a woman on suspicion of murder after she gave birth to a stillborn baby boy who had lethal quantities of methamphetamine in his system. Hanford Police said they were seeking Chelsea Becker on charges of homicide following the death of her child. “We ended up getting a murder warrant for her arrest, so we have been checking several different areas in and around the city of Hanford,” Hanford Police Sgt. Justin Vallin explained to ABC-30.
Becker was subsequently arrested in the 1000 block of Lark Street in Visalia and booked into the Kings County jail on a $5 million bail, the Fresno Bee reported. The police chief revealed that Becker had given birth to the stillborn baby boy back in September. Sensing something was amiss, medics ran tests on the deceased infant, which subsequently revealed deadly quantities of methamphetamine present in his blood.
“This child, who was stillborn, was well over the toxic limit for an adult,” Vallin added. Investigators noted that Becker had been taking the Class-A drug for the entirety of her pregnancy. “Ms. Becker had been notified of what drug use could do if she was pregnant or while she was pregnant about the harmful effects it could have on a child,” Vallin said. READ MORE
