Grandmother jailed for killing granddaughter after giving her morphine for toothache

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-granddaughter-giving-morphine-toothache.html

A Pennsylvania grandmother was sent to prison Friday after admitting to killing her toddler granddaughter with an overdose of morphine.
Penny Kochel, of Heidelberg Township, was sentenced to two to 23 months in prison after copping to involuntary manslaughter as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

The 53-year-old first found herself in trouble in May 2009 after giving one-year-old Leanna McEntee morphine to ease teething pain and originally faced a third-degree murder charge.

‘I often wish I could trade places with her and that everything would be all right,’ the still-grieving granny said in court before her sentencing, according to the Reading Eagle.

She initially claimed she gave the baby a teething tablet and rubbed tequila on her gums to numb the pain, according to reports, but toxicology tests revealed morphine in the baby’s system.

‘Leanna was my beautiful angel,’ Ms Kochel added. ‘I would never have done anything to her that I thought would hurt or kill her.’

She was looking after the baby while the parents were on a weekend vacation.


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[Mysterie]

its hard to believe someone could be so incredibly stupid...

 

[opi8]

Yeah, that's pretty fucked up. Then again, her initial thought was to blame alcohol, which is just as likely to kill children with stupid supervisors.

 

[!_MDMA_!]

Poor kid (

 

[slimvictor]

Sad.
The grandmother may have acted stupidly, but she didn't act malevolently.
The little girl is dead, but the grandma has to live with her mistake for the rest of her life, not to mention a jail stint.
What about the poor parents, as well?
I feel bad for everyone involved

 

['medicine cabinet']

Maybe if this grandmother was born in 1830 then yea rubbing some morphine on a teething babs gums as crazy as it is might be accectable tho dangerous. This day in age...and she fact shes only 53?? Stupi wwoman.

 

[cj]

Well if your going to do stuff like that you at least better know wtf your doing. I wonder how much she dosed and how exactly she did it.