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Christiana Leigh Justice arrested on Tuesday​


Christiana Leigh Justice (also known as Christiana Justice) is a white inmate who was arrested near Salem, Virginia on 2/7/2022 4:40 PM and charged with the following:
  • Non capital felony murder.
  • Abuse/neglect child: cause serious injury

Christiana Leigh Justice, 35, of Vinton, was indicted Friday on charges of felony murder and child neglect, according to Roanoke County Circuit Court records. The charges reflect that authorities believe the child’s death occurred accidentally during an instance of neglect.

Court records list the victim as a boy whose obituary described him as a 1-year-old who was deeply loved and reveled in smiles and sunshine. He died Oct. 21. Surviving relatives named included a twin brother and the child’s mother, Christiana L. Justice.

The cause of death was determined by the state medical examiner’s office to be from acute methadone poisoning.
 
A judge said that he was satisfied that Christiana Leigh Justice did not intend to kill her 1-year-old son with an overdose of methadone — but that nonetheless, she was guilty of the toddler’s murder.
Back in Roanoke County Circuit Court to be formally convicted of felony murder and child abuse or neglect, and to be sentenced, Justice, 37, wept as she said that she still did not understand what occurred on Oct. 21, 2021, when her son died. At the time, Justice told police and rescue workers that her son had been sick and that she gave him an antibiotic left over from a previous illness.

But lab tests later found that the residue left in the medicine bottle contained 10 times more methadone than antibiotic. Justice was prescribed methadone for years to combat a heroin addiction, attorneys said.
On Tuesday, Justice apologized to the father of her child, who was incarcerated when the boy died, and said that she was supposed to protect their son. “I’m so sorry. … I failed,” Justice said.

Judge James Swanson sentenced Justice to a total of 25 years in prison, to be suspended after she serves 13 years.

Justice also is to be supervised by the probation office for five years after her release.
Justice told police that she gave her son Jireh medicine as she put him to bed at night, that he was alive and crying around sunrise, and that she found him silent and cold as she got ready for work that morning. But a medical examiner concluded that Jireh had to have died the night before, closer to the time he was given the methadone, because his supper was undigested and his body too cold for death to have occurred just before medics reached him.

Holohan noted that in a 2015 Bedford County case, Justice was found guilty of endangering some of her other children by driving while intoxicated with them in the car. He suggested that she put Jireh’s time of death later than it actually happened because she knew she had given him methadone, perhaps to keep the child quiet, and wanted to make it less obvious the drug caused the boy’s death.

Whatever happened, Justice showed “gross, wanton, reckless” disregard for her son’s health in exposing him to methadone, the prosecutor said.

“An exhausted mother who made a simple mistake, that’s not what this case is,” Holohan said.
Defense attorney Suzanne Moushegian, of Salem, said that Justice’s anguish had been obvious from the recording of her 911 call in 2021 on through to Tuesday’s hearing. The loss of her son was a greater punishment than any prison sentence,” Moushegian said.
Speaking through tears to the judge, Justice said, “It doesn’t matter how much time the court decides to give me. I wish that I could give up all my time so that Jireh was still alive.”
https://roanoke.com/news/local/crim...cle_27eea408-2b27-11ee-b5e2-7f57879965f1.html

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She gave it too him??
She had to have given it to him on purpose. It said the medicine bottle had 10x more methadone than antibiotic...and there is no other way that would work.
Methadone take homes come in their own dose bottles, they require a working lock box to leave the facility AND that shit smells stronger than the strongest cough syrup you've ever smelled. When they fill the bottles for take homes, you smell it in the lobby!
Absolutely no way she 1) accidentally got it there 2) didn't smell it even if it were somehow an accident - like she had mixed it before for her to take. Which doesn't make sense, but just to give benefit of the doubt.
 
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