Meet Victoria Klein.
Victoria Klein has had a hard life, the lines of which have been indelibly etched on her face.
As you can imagine, she’s been arrested a number of times. Nothing really bad, just charges dealing with writing bad checks and minor drug charges.
Victoria Klein likes her heroin.
She’s been trying to quit though, most recently living at a rehab center in Jacksonville, Florida, trying to kick the habit.
Her 1-month-old baby was living with her at the rehab center, which makes for a nice Christmas-y scene this time of year.
Yes, it was starting to look a lot like Christmas - until Victoria Klein’s baby was rushed to the emergency room with a skull fracture and in full cardiac arrest on the 10th of December, 2007.
Doctors managed to save the baby, ran a whole slew of tests on the infant and found - ta-da! - methadone in his urine.
Nobody knows how methadone got into the baby’s system, or exactly what fractured the baby’s skull.
Not the doctors, not the cops, not the rehab center employees.
Well, that’s not entirely accurate, I suppose, because one person does know how the methadone got into the baby’s system - Victoria Klein.
Klein, after all, admitted to police that she was the only person with the baby in the hours before the infant was rushed to the emergency room.
She’s not being “cooperative” with police, however.
Imagine that.
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Sad thing is, im related to her.
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Was she breast-feeding the baby ? Could explain how the methadone got into the baby’s system. Another candidate for the Bad Mom Award for 2007.
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now that is sad…
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I am about 80 percent on this one….U cant trust a pill popper…I have seen it…Mothers with children…. drugs = neglect and abuse!
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breatfeeding would possibly explain the methadone in the baby’s system, but since when do you run the risk of a fractured skull when being breast fed?
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DualDenz- Your posts are making me laugh.
Maybe the baby’s head was fractured while attempting to ‘latch on’ during breastfeeding?
Maybe because he was already an addict, thanks to ‘Mommy Dearest’ during her pregnancy, he was frantically trying to get his next ‘hit’ from said mommy’s breastmilk?
Or maybe the poor baby tripped and fell on his crawl to the Bahamas to raid Anna Nicole Smith’s mini-fridge?
Enquiring minds want to know.
c
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what if while breastfeeding and getting it’s high, the “mom” fell asleep and dropped the baby on it’s head. Then rolled over it with a rocking chair? Who knows.
I’d like to correct Kristina….she was a heroine addict, not necessarily a pill popper but she did however get her fix through pills. It’s not that you can’t trust a pill popper; you really can’t trust a junkie of any kind.
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Oh Thanks for the insight…Brittany. u really cleared that up…
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She used to be my friend, a pretty woman, clean & a go-getter. Yes Pills took her life 1st minor pain pills, then oxy, then who knows. She lost all her friends (some went with her in fatal followings) for the choices the drugs cause her to become. I am so very sad for this woman. The baby, I am positive was already an addict (it is already in his DNA). So he I hope is in a better place from the world she would have offered him.
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I just don’t understand how clinics and (I think) some prisons give out methadone to the heroine addicts. It’s like they’re feeding their addiction and making it legal. I don’t understand how they expect these people to get any better if they’re just hand feeding them this shit.
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Brittany-
Ya got me… is being a methadone addict that much more respectable than being a heroin addict?
Kind of like getting someone off the horrible alcohol by getting them into huffing. Or meth. Gets rid of all that pesky drunk-driving stigma, eh?
c
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well it is heroine. they just don’t want the people freaking out if they can’t get their fix. the whole withdrawl thing makes people WAY crazy.
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