Stevie Nicole Goreczny was sentenced to a minimum of six years to a maximum of 15 years on the following charge: Murder Of The Third Degree.
Stanley Goreczny InterviewedAccording to a criminal complaint filed on September 28, 2022, PSP Franklin was contacted on July 8, 2022, around 8:32 a.m. by the UPMC Northwest Hospital medical staff in relation to an unresponsive two-year-old male child victim who was taken there. It was learned that the child’s mother, Stevie Goreczny, and her father, Stanley Goreczny, rushed the child to UPMC Northwest Hospital around 5:39 a.m. It was also learned that shortly after their arrival, doctors pronounced the child deceased, and the two individuals had left the hospital a short time later (at approximately 7:01 a.m.), had not returned, and medical personnel were unable to contact them.
The officer asked Stanley if Stevie does drugs, and he didn’t know. The officer asked if Stevie is dating (a known 38-year-old Oil City man), and he stated she is friends with him. It was noted that (the known 38-year-old Oil City man) is a known drug user/dealer in Venango County with multiple warrants out for his arrest, including dangerous drug-related warrants. Stanley related the known man was not at his house on that night, the complaint indicates.
The officer asked Stanley if he knows what happened to the victim. He related he thinks the victim puked and choked on his own vomit. Stanley indicated the victim has spit and vomit coming from his mouth when they found him at 5:00 a.m. unresponsive. The officer advised Stanley that the purge coming from the victim’s mouth, as he describe it, could be indicative of a drug overdose. Stanley stated, “It is not,” the complaint states.
Venango County Coroner Provides PSP With Toxicology Report on August 9The officer then asked Stanley if Stevie was at his house all night, and he stated “she never left that I know of.” The officer asked Stanley if Stevie was “on anything “ right now. He related antibiotics for an infection. It was noted that Stevie appeared to be impaired on some sort of drug when the officer was speaking to her earlier. The officer asked Stanley if he dropped Stevie at (the known 38-year-old Oil City man’s) house recently and he stated no, later to find out he dropped her off at the known man’s residence after they left the hospital, according to the complaint.
Read MoreOn August 9, 2022 around 10:00, the Venango County Coroner, Christina Rugh, arrived at PSP Franklin station with the toxicology report result of the victim.
The following information is the listed positive findings for the victim’s cardiac blood:
1) Fentanyl 2.2/mg/ml.
2) Nortfentanyl 2.2/mg/ml.
3) Creatinine (Vitreous Fluid) 1.08 mg/dL
4) Sodium (Vitreous Fluid/ 126/mmol/L
5) Potassium (Vitreous Fluid) 21.2/mmol/L
6) Chloride (Vitreous Fluid) 99.8/mmol/L
7) Urea Nitrogen (Vitreous Fluid) 23.0/mg/dL
Preliminary information received from the Venango County Coroner is that the victim’s death will be listed as a Fentanyl Drug Toxicity death, due to the Toxicology finding in the NMS Lab report.
Stevie Goreczny Interviewed at Venango County Prison on August 11
On August 11, 2022, around 1:55 p.m. Stevie Goreczny was interviewed at the Venango County Prison.
According to the complaint, the interview started off by Stevie being asked to take the officer through the process of events that took place leading up to the victim’s death. The officer and Stevie spoke about July 7th being the victim’s birthday. Stevie then stated “I was using heroin before his birthday.” Stevie related that on the victim’s birthday, (the known 38-year-old Oil City man), and she went to the Dollar General in Oil City across from Union Street to get (the victim’s) birthday presents.
Stevie related the victim was with Stanley at the Creek Road address. She related they drove home and gave (the victim) his presents. Stevie then indicated there is a video on her phone of this. She related there is also a video on her phone “of his breathing that I have.” Stevie related they didn’t celebrate the victim’s birthday on his birthday because they were going to celebrate the following day. She related they didn’t do much of anything on the victim’s birthday. She related (the known 38-year-old Oil City man) left her house around 3:00 p.m., the complaint states.
Goreczny Allegedly Admits to Using Heroin & Fentanyl
Stevie indicated she never used drugs around her son. She didn’t know if she used drugs on the victims birthday, but “she is sure she did.” Stevie allegedly admitted to using heroin and fentanyl on a regular basis. She admitted to using any drug she could get her hands on, but she preferred heroin, fentanyl, and meth. The officer asked Stevie if she used MDMA (Ecstasy) The officer spoke of it being in her drug screen. She related she “didn’t purposely use it.” She related the heroin is usually laced with fentanyl. The officer then talked about the victim’s toxicology and how the victim only had fentanyl in his system. The officer asked Stevie how she thought this happened, according to the complaint.
According to the complaint, the officer asked Stevie if she ever saw fentanyl at Stanley’s house before, and she said “yes.” She indicated it was a powder form and that she hasn’t ever seen it in any other form. She related she sees fentanyl come in stamp bags baggies, folds of paper, money, and lottery tickets. The officer asked Stevie when the last time she saw fentanyl at Stanley’s house. She stated: “I am sure I probably did see it on his birthday, but I don’t remember. I think I seen it on his birthday.” The officer asked who brought it, and she indicated it was already there. The officer asked who’s it was. She stated: “I think I had a little bit, but I didn’t lose mine.” She then stated: “I know I had a little bit, and it was powder.” She then didn’t know if it was just fentanyl. She related it “was probably in a baggie or stamp bag on my person.” Stevie related it is fair to say that there are dangerous illegal drugs at Stanley’s house on a daily basis. Stevie then indicated the fentanyl could have been Stanley’s. She related it could have been (the known 38-year-old Oil City man), but she didn’t think so. She related she didn’t think (the known 38-year-old Oil City man) even went inside the house. When the officer questioned Stevie about it possibly being Stanley’s fentanyl, she became emotional because she didn’t want to get her dad in trouble.
She did indicate that (the known 38-year-old Oil City man) has had fentanyl at the house before but not on her son’s birthday, and that he was at Stanley’s house “probably the day before.” She related they were together nearly every day. The officer and Stevie then talked about when she found the victim unresponsive on the couch.
PSP Asks Goreczny If She Thought Her Son Ingested a Dangerous Drug
The officer asked Stevie if the thought ever crossed her mind that her son may have grabbed a dangerous illicit substance like fentanyl, heroin, or meth, and ingested it. She stated: “I didn’t know. I was scared. It was a thought,” the complaint states.
The officer asked her what she thought it was. Stevie started to talk about how Stanley misplaced a container of fentanyl or heroin less than a month before the victim’s birthday. She related Stanley didn’t think he lost it; he thought he put it somewhere and couldn’t find it. She didn’t know if it even had been found yet. Stevie related she didn’t misplace anything. She related she keeps her drugs in a safe that she had at the house. The officer advised her that he didn’t see a safe when he was at the scene taking photographs. She related the safe is not there now, but it was there the night of the victim’s birthday, and it would have been in her room. She related it was a safe that (the known 38-year-old Oil City man) gave her and she gave it back to him. She related that Stanley kept his drugs “somewhere else.” When the officer asked her where, she related he kept them up high in the bathroom in either a fixture or in his bedroom in a drawer. The officer asked her if her son could climb up on things like desks or chairs, and she related he could. Stevie related she doesn’t know how the victim came into contact with the fentanyl. She stated: “There is a chance it was mine, and there is a chance it was my dad’s.” The officer asked what Stanley would tell the officers, and she said whatever he remembers, according to the complaint.
Goreczny States Fentanyl Was Supplied by Known 38-year-old Oil City Man
When Stevie was asked where she got her fentanyl, she stated (the known 38-year-old Oil City man). The officer asked Stevie if it was safe to say that the fentanyl that killed her son was either her fentanyl or Stanley’s fentanyl and that the fentanyl was supplied by (the known 38-year-old Oil City man), and Stevie said “yes,” according to the complaint.
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