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A shitty mom has pleaded no contest to charges in the death of her 1-year-old daughter who was found unresponsive lying in a toilet bowl.

30-year-old Tabitha Danielle Amos entered the plea to charges including child cruelty with injury and felony possession of narcotics.

Gabriella Elizabeth Moore was found unresponsive in 2017 by her mother. Prosecutors say Amos tested positive for a “phenomenally” high level of methamphetamine.

Assistant prosecutor Sandra Workman says Gabriella mostly was left in the company of a 3-year-old and 7-year-old.

Amos was arrested in January of this year. Authorities say she was caught while posing online as an escort. She’s posted bail and is free until her September sentencing.

Her defense attorney, Tripp Hunt, says she’s pregnant and “doing really well.”
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@Satanica

What the hell! They should just give her her next fix and call it a day.
A Virginia woman has been sentenced to six months in jail in connection with the death of her 13-month-old daughter in 2017.

30-year-old Tabitha Danielle Amos was ordered to serve six months for drug possession and for child cruelty in the death of her daughter, Gabriella Moore.

Although Amos didn’t testify, she read a written statement, apologizing to Moore and to both of their families.

Authorities say Amos found Gabriella lying unresponsive in a toilet at the home of a friend they were visiting in September 2017, and a medical examiner says the child drowned. Franklin County assistant prosecutor Sandra Workman said a drug screen later showed Amos tested positive for “a phenomenally high level of methamphetamine.”
 
That term marked the high end of the guidelines, which ranged from three to six months. Judge Clyde Perdue acknowledged the sadness of the situation but pointed to those recommendations before he announced Amos’ punishment to the crowded courtroom.

“Judges get sentencing guidelines. We can’t just do what we want to do,” Perdue said. “We can’t get caught up in a moment. Maybe a moment like this.”

Perdue also gave Amos 4½ years in suspended time and three years of probation, and he ordered her to be on good behavior for life.
Amos’ mother, Roxanne Harvey, said in court that her daughter struggled with mental health issues growing up, including bipolar disorder, and she suffered two sexual assaults as a juvenile, including one when she was 11.

She said Amos had problems with drugs in her teens but got treatment and thrived. Harvey told Perdue she was unaware that her daughter was using again prior to Gabriella’s death.

Defense attorney Tripp Hunt said that over the past year, Amos has attempted drug-related suicide on multiple occasions.

“She didn’t want to have to live ... with the knowledge that she led to her daughter’s death,” Hunt said. “She’s literally living within a prison herself.”
“That child would still be alive if Ms. Amos hadn’t left her while she was out ... using methamphetamine,” Franklin County assistant prosecutor Workman said. “I think the guidelines are off. They’re just off.”

“Give Gabriella justice,” she added.
Although Amos did not testify, she read a written statement, apologizing to Moore and to both of their families, likening the situation to “a nightmare.”

“Never will I trust anyone else with my child,” Amos told them. “Finally I have a reason to live and be strong. I will never use again.”


I hope she relapses so that those children are not allowed to reside with her.
 

I hope she relapses so that those children are not allowed to reside with her.

“Never will I trust anyone else with my child,”

BITCH THEY WERE 7 AND 3. God I hope they take her baby as soon as she gives birth.
 
@Satanica

What the hell! They should just give her her next fix and call it a day.

Six months. Dear sweet Lord, is that what a human life is worth now?
 
And why wasn't she charged with abuse to the child she was carrying as she had "a phenomenally high level of methamphetamine" when they tested her? Wouldn't that cause injuries to the baby she is carrying? Isn't that abuse to a child?
 
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