Sentenced: Drug Addicts Accuse Each Other Of Killing 3MO That Slept On Bed Between Them

[Sugar Cookie]

A Bedford couple will stand trial, charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the asphyxiation death of their 3-month-old child inside a Bedford motel room in January, authorities said.

According to state police in Bedford, troopers were called to the Super 8 Motel in Bedford Township on Jan. 2 for an unresponsive infant.

Troopers said when they arrived, they overheard the couple, Kailey Jo Hughes, 31, and Shawn Patrick Allison, 44, accusing each other of killing the child, who slept on the bed between them.

Hughes said that, when she awoke for a 3 a.m. feeding, she found the infant girl unresponsive.

Allison told troopers that, when he found the child unresponsive, he began chest compressions and Hughes went next door to use the neighbor’s phone.

The child had been born addicted to Subutex and spent several extra days in the hospital after birth, troopers said.

Tenants living in the other rooms said the couple would fight often, and Allison would threaten Hughes, troopers said.

The motel manager said Hughes and Allison stayed in a room paid for by the Center for Community Action, troopers said.

Hughes reportedly admitted that she and Allison had been using heroin and methamphetamine at a friend’s house on New Year’s Eve. An autopsy performed at ForensicDX in Windber allegedly showed the child died from asphyxiation and had methamphetamine in her system.

The couple were also charged with endangering the welfare of children, reckless endangerment, tampering with physical evidence, unsworn falsification to authorities and drug counts.

Charges were filed based on a “pattern of substance abuse around (the child), a pattern of domestic violence, their inability to maintain a residence with proper facilities for their infant and their high level of intoxication at the time of (the child’s) death,” according to a court document.

Bedford couple to stand trial in baby's death

A Bedford couple will stand trial, charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the asphyxiation death of their 3-month-old child inside a Bedford motel room in January, authorities said.

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[Sejanus]

Living in a Super 8 and doing drugs.
Won't even take responsibility for the baby death.
Living the high life.
Pathetic wastes

 

[Satanica]

A box, a dresser drawer, and so many options instead of co sleeping when they're that small. From their continuing drug use, though, it appears the child was probably doomed anyway.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

She was to lazy to take her drug filled titty to that poor baby.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

She went next door to use a neighbor’s phone? Do all hotel rooms not come with a phone? Baby was detoxed.. wonder if mom had a Rx for the Suboxone? Why wasn’t a safety plan in effect and a ‘home’ inspection? Too many questions?!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

 

[thuumpr]

She went next door to use a neighbor’s phone? Do all hotel rooms not come with a phone? Baby was detoxed.. wonder if mom had a Rx for the Suboxone? Why wasn’t a safety plan in effect and a ‘home’ inspection? Too many questions?!

Did NOT want to disturb baby's daddy...

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Bedford County Court of Common Pleas
Court Summary
Allison, Shawn Patrick

 

[Jellyfish Brain]

Why wasn't the society paying for their accommodation doing home checks and insuring the child was safe? Why was DCFS not called?! Such a fucking failure.

 

[GoneWest]

I’m still flabbergasted that no one questioned her “when I woke up for the 3:00am feeding” comment. Bitch you did NOT wake up for any feeding.

 

[Symmachus]

"He did it! He killed the baby!"

"No! She did it!"

"Don't listen to him. He did it!"

"I swear, it was her!"

"I would never do such a thing!"

"Nor would I!"

"He called me a bad name once."

"So what? That doesn't make me a baby killer. Like you!"

"Hey, you shouldn't have let her sleep alongside us."

"No! That was your decision."