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Sarah Stephens​
A Sacramento woman is accused of killing her infant, who died in late September 2012 of an apparent drug overdose, police said Thursday.

Sarah Stephens, 32, is charged with second-degree murder and felony child endangerment, according to a news release from the Citrus Heights Police Department.

The baby was 8 months old when he died.

Police went out to an apartment complex in the 7000 block of Auburn Boulevard after learning of an unresponsive infant.

Officers determined the baby had died, but didn't immediately spot any signs of foul play, police said.

The toxicology report later showed he in fact died of a drug overdose.

Stephens "knowingly and without regard for the infant's health, administered controlled substances to the infant, ultimately causing his death," the release reads.

It took investigators several months to piece together the information.

Citrus Heights detectives worked with the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, Sacramento County Coroner's Office, Sacramento County Crime Lab, Child Protective Services and medical professionals.

Stephens was taken into custody from her home on Wednesday, police said.
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http://www.kcra.com/news/baby-dies-...21392110/-/kdg4usz/-/index.html#ixzz2bWkD8t66
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Ryder Salmen​

Grandfather: Family Reached out to Mother in Drug Spiral
His name was Ryder Salmen — and you’d never know it from the bright eyes and a sweet smile, but in eight short months of life he endured more than most full-grown adults.

“She deliberately, in my opinion, fed that baby drugs so she wouldn’t have to … That was her babysitter,” said Ryder’s grandfather Alan Salmen.
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“We reached out,” Salmen said. “We knew what was going on, ‘please give him to us. If you don’t have the time or don’t want to do it, please, we’re here.’”

But Ryder’s grandfather says, despite an accidental overdose at two months that left Ryder hospitalized, and despite Ryder being in an almost constant state of withdrawal when he was with them, Stephens fought for and retained half custody of the little boy.
http://fox40.com/2013/08/08/grandfather-family-reached-out-to-mother-in-drug-spiral/#ixzz2bWlkJyLX
 
OMFG That is the most adorable baby. This baby had a loving family who was willing to take him and lovingly raise him, my heart goes out to them. This bitch wouldn't let them. I want to reach in her and rip out her baby making parts with my bare hand. I want this bitch to suffer.

RIP Baby Ryder! Fly with angels sweet one! Please watch over your Grandpa. He really did love you!
 
OMFG That is the most adorable baby. This baby had a loving family who was willing to take him and lovingly raise him, my heart goes out to them. This bitch wouldn't let them. I want to reach in her and rip out her baby making parts with my bare hand. I want this bitch to suffer.

RIP Baby Ryder! Fly with angels sweet one! Please watch over your Grandpa. He really did love you!

yeah there were more pics but I couldnt post them he was adorable beyond words
 
In April 2012, five months before Ryder Salmen was killed by a drug overdose – the result of breast-feeding by his drug-abusing mother, police say – he was the subject of a report to Sacramento County Child Protective Services.

Then 4 months old, Ryder was brought to a hospital because he was lethargic. A drug test found methadone in his system, the same drug that caused him to show withdrawal symptoms when he was born, according to documents in his CPS case file, which was obtained by The Bee through a Public Records Act request.

Court documents say that Stephens was warned to stop breast-feeding Ryder. After receiving the April report, a CPS social worker determined that Ryder was at risk because he was a "drug-exposed infant."

"A safety plan is required for the child to remain in the home," the agency's safety assessment said.

Still, Ryder died in September 2012.
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Ryder suffered a fatal overdose of Xanax, methadone and the painkiller Opana through his mother's breast milk, police said.

CPS' safety plan for the baby – a separate document from the assessment that outlines steps to be taken to protect the child – was not included in the records released by the agency. Only the juvenile court can release the safety plan, Michelle Callejas, deputy director of CPS, said in a written statement.

She indicated that a safety plan was completed in Ryder's case, but said she could not answer questions about it because it falls outside the scope of the records released by CPS.

However, a CPS manager did not approve the safety assessment in Ryder's case until three months after a social worker created it, records show.

That response is unacceptable, said Ed Howard, senior counsel for the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law, who reviewed Ryder's case file at the request of The Bee.

"Is it their policy to wait three months to approve safety assessments for the children of drug-addicted mothers?" Howard said. "This undermines the confidence about whether Sacramento County CPS is doing its job."
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On Aug. 12, 2012, the same day CPS approved the first safety assessment, the agency created another safety assessment. The second assessment said Ryder faced a low risk of future maltreatment.

"Based on the documentation, it looks like someone was covering their tracks" because of the delay in approving the first assessment, Howard said.

But Callejas said the second assessment was needed to a determine whether improvements had been made in the home after a safety plan was put in place.
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CPS received a second report questioning Ryder's safety shortly after completing its second safety assessment. A Citrus Heights police officer made the report after citing Stephens for child endangerment when the car she was driving, with Ryder in the back seat, went off the road.

Based on the records, CPS apparently did not complete another risk assessment following the incident. Callejas said she could not answer questions about the handling of the second report, stating again that the questions fall outside the scope of the released records.

Ryder died of a drug overdose less than a month after the officer made the second report to CPS.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/01/5698567/public-eye-how-cps-handled-case.html
 
Two weeks after Ryder's death, toxicology test results showed the baby had died of a prescription drug overdose, according to the warrant request.

The pathologist told a police detective that "the drugs were at a level that would have caused an adult addict to be high," and that results indicated that "Ryder had a tolerance to the drugs," the warrant affidavit states.

The detective, identified only as Detective Rothwell, wrote in the affidavit that during a conversation with Stephens – in which she did not discuss the coroner's findings – the suspect "stated if there were drugs found in Ryder's system she believed they possibly came from the father."

Stephens then named the same drugs identified in the toxicology report, the detective wrote.

The Bee is not naming the boy's father because he is not a suspect in the case.

Stephens told the detective she was taking methadone "for pain management due to a brain tumor," Keppra for seizures and Ambien as a sleep aid, according to the affidavit.

She also reported that she previously had taken Opana for pain, and had started using Xanax for stress related to Ryder's death, the detective wrote.

However, Rothwell indicated in the affidavit that the Xanax use had started before the baby died.

Stephens said she was not breastfeeding, and a bottle taken from the baby's crib at the time of his death registered none of the drugs reportedly found in his system.

However, the detective wrote that "based on the timeline" it was the pathologists' belief "that the drugs entered Ryder's system while he was with Stephens, and that because Stephens is known to be taking these drugs it was most likely (passed) to Ryder through breastfeeding."

Rothwell also wrote about a conversation with Stephens' boyfriend, Matthew Wittmayer, who said Stephens told him the baby had been born drug addicted and, as a result, was a "really fussy" baby.

She confided in Wittmayer after Ryder's death, he told Rothwell, that she once gave him a portion of one of her pills to calm him, the detective wrote.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/10/5638770/8-month-old-died-of-fatal-cocktail.html
 
She confided in Wittmayer after Ryder's death, he told Rothwell, that she once gave him a portion of one of her pills to calm him, the detective wrote.

Before I even got the chance to read that last statement I fucking knew already why the bitch had done it. Coz she was just too fucking doped up to be a parent and when baby Ryder started to cry or want attention it was easier to dope him up than actually care for him.
I really don't like this bitch. I wonder if all her reasons for taking those medications are true. Isn't Opana a really really strong pain reliever?
 
Nooooo! if a baby has meth in it's system WHEN IT'S BORN, you don't give it to the mom, yarg. C'mon people. This is so stupid, especially after seeing things like the hospital that called the cops to take away a woman's newborn, as they said they found opiates in her system. It was later determined that she had eaten a poppy seed muffin and the hospital was testing for miniscule, trace amounts.
http://www.thefix.com/content/poppy-seed-bagel-case-leads-drug-policy-changes91867
 
Before I even got the chance to read that last statement I fucking knew already why the bitch had done it. Coz she was just too fucking doped up to be a parent and when baby Ryder started to cry or want attention it was easier to dope him up than actually care for him.
I really don't like this bitch. I wonder if all her reasons for taking those medications are true. Isn't Opana a really really strong pain reliever?
Opana makes Oxy look like candy. That shit is horrific. I have heard of hard-core addicts that could barely tolerate it. The easiest comparison is an Opana 20 is like doing 2 Oxy 80s. At the height of my addiction I could take 8 to 10 Oxy 80s at a time, one Opana would have had me drooling on myself, I nodded out so much because I mixed pills like crazy, opiates, barbiturates, benzos and narcotic muscle relaxants, I was a pro at he combos.
 
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