A Lumberton woman who caused her toddler's death by passing out on him received a four-year prison term Friday.
Antoinette King, 34, previously acknowledged she drank alcohol and took painkillers before collapsing onto her 13-month-old son in their Dove Court home in January, said the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office.
It said King was unaware her painkillers had been laced with a powerful synthetic opioid, carfentanil.
King's son, Jerimiah, was suffocated.
The mother, who was revived after receiving three doses of Narcan, pled guilty in July to endangering the welfare of a child.
King told investigators she drank four “airplane bottles” of alcohol and took a painkiller before partying with friends at a motel on a Saturday evening.
King said she could not recall the several hours that followed.
Her mother, Gail King, said Antoinette King was supervising Jerimiah and his 5-year-old brother when the older woman took a shower that night.
Gail King said she returned from the bathroom to find her daughter on top of the boy. Both were unresponsive.