Rebecca J. Dixon, 35, was taken into custody on a warrant, charging her with second-degree manslaughter in connection with the death of a 1-year-old child who police say was exposed to fentanyl, morphine and cocaine.
Medics arrived shortly after police and took the 1-year-old to Griffin Hospital where a doctor pronounced him dead and said the child had “no signs of life for approximately 70 minutes,” according to the affidavit.
That day, Dixon called out of work, and told her mother the child was “acting fussy and cranky when he woke up,” the affidavit said.
Dixon’s mother told police that she saw Dixon take the baby into her room that morning and kept him in there for the “entire morning and afternoon,” the affidavit said. Around 1 p.m., her mother told police, she heard her daughter call out and she ran upstairs, according to the affidavit.
The woman told Barbero she saw the 1-year-old lying face up on the bed “with no signs of life,” the affidavit said. Dixon and her mother started CPR and called 911.
When Barbero talked to Dixon, she told him the baby fell asleep face down in the crook of her elbow around 12:30 p.m. The affidavit said she told Barbero she also fell asleep and noticed the baby was not moving and felt limp only when she woke up.
Dixon consented to have her blood taken for analysis at the hospital that day, the affidavit stated.
About a month after Dixon’s interview with state police, James Gill, the state’s chief medical examiner, told investigators on Sept. 9 that he classified the manner of death as homicide, the affidavit said.
Gill told investigators the cause was “acute intoxication due to the combined effects of fentanyl and morphine, with recent cocaine exposure,” the affidavit said.
On Sept. 10, Barbero spoke with a supervisory toxicology analyst, who said the blood taken from Dixon the day of the Based on the investigation, Barbero applied for an arrest warrant, charging Dixon in connection with the child’s death.
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