3MO Found Wedged Between Couch Had Fentanyl, Xylazine, Heroin, & Hycodone In His System When He Died

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Tashae Goodman, 31, was arrested Sunday following an investigation into the death of her 3-month-old son. According to a criminal complaint reviewed by Law&Crime, Goodman called 911 during the early morning hours of March 22 when she found her baby was not breathing. She allegedly told dispatchers that she "slept on" the baby while they were both on a couch. Paramedics arrived and performed lifesaving procedures on the boy, who was pronounced dead at 4:29 a.m.

Goodman allegedly told police that it was not the first time the baby "fell in there," referring to the gap between the cushions and the back of the couch.

Police said Goodman explained that the baby had been fussy, and he would cry unless she held him, which she did for most of the day, including when she went to the bathroom and went to bed. After the baby's last feeding at 1 a.m. on March 22, Goodman said she laid the baby down on the sectional couch between herself and the back of the couch. When she woke up at 3:40 a.m., the baby was "wedged" between the cushion and the back of the couch and "bleeding from his nose and head."

An autopsy performed on the baby revealed the little boy had been in good health with no signs of trauma, illness, or disease that would explain his death. The medical examiner delayed ruling a cause and manner of death until toxicology results came back.

More than a month after the baby died, toxicology results revealed that the baby bottle Goodman said was used for the baby's final feeding allegedly contained fentanyl. The baby also had fentanyl, xylazine, heroin, and oxycodone in his system when he died, investigators say. His cause of death was mixed drug toxicity, and the manner was ruled as homicide.

Goodman was charged with reckless homicide and two counts of chronic neglect of a child.

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3-month-old baby found wedged between mom and the couch tested positive for drugs: Police

She attempted to explain the drugs allegedly found in her baby's bottle as "residue" that was there because she had not kept up with cleaning her home.

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