Heather Marie Frazier: Maryland mom gets 5 years in prison after two-month-old son's fentanyl-related death
FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND: Heather Marie Frazier, a Maryland mother who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter of her own two-month-old son, has been sentenced to five years in prison. The conviction also includes five years of probation, and the same punishment was slapped on the husband Jeremy Frazier in a recent court ruling by Judge Julie Stevenson Solt.
Grayson Frazier died in 2020 because of the dangerously addictive drug fentanyl. The medical team was called out by the resident of Walden Way, Maryland, on July 3, 2020, after it was reported that an infant is going through a cardiac arrest.
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Baby Grayson was later pronounced dead at Frederick Health Hospital, which carried a full autopsy of the child’s body. It was then established that the cause of death was fentanyl intoxication and the death was considered a homicide. Frederick County officials booked Grayson’s parents Heather and Jeremy, 34, as the prime suspects in the case. During the investigation, the suspects and family members told the officials in one of the interviews that they had been mixing the deadly drug in the same bathroom where they fixed their son’s bottles, reports Daily Mail.
“This is a tragic case where drug addiction has destroyed a precious young life and the parents are faced with the consequences of their reckless actions,” said Charlie Smith, State’s Attorney about the case. Jeremy Whitney Frazier, 35, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in March, and Heather in August, where both are now set to serve their five years imprisonment in the Department of Corrections, followed by another 5 years of supervised probation on release.
In an unrelated case, a Missouri teen was booked on adult murder charges after a girl overdosed and died at her home with a fentanyl-laced ecstasy pill provided by the teen. Jacob Sayre is now being tried for second-degree murder and additional charges of child endangerment, a suspected drug deal, and the delivery of a controlled substance in connection to the death of Victoria Jones on December 15, reports MEAWW.
Victoria’s mother said, "I think it is beyond pathetic that a person she meets at Church, of all places, is the one who gave her the drugs that killed her. They were NOT friends at all, Let me say that Again, they Were NOT friends."
Wendie Glass Jones, further said, "This person, Jacob Sayre, has had DRUG issues since he was 14 and his parents really didn't do anything until he was 16 (beginning of 2022) and went out of control.”