9-month-old girl dies after 17-year-old mom put fentanyl in bottle: police

A 9-month-old boy died in Florida after the baby’s teen mom allegedly mixed his formula with fentanyl, police said Wednesday.

The little boy was found unresponsive and with no pulse at a home in Callahan on June 26.

Deputies tried to revive the baby with CPR, but he later died at a hospital in Jacksonville, according to Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper.

The child’s 17-year-old mom initially told investigators that she had no clue what had happened, but her story changed in subsequent interviews over the next few weeks.

Eventually, an autopsy revealed that the child had enough fentanyl in his system to kill 10 people.

During an additional interview on Tuesday, the mom confessed that she was tired and wanted to take a nap on the day the baby died.

The teen admitted she then filled a bottle with a mixture of formula and what she thought was cocaine, but it later turned out to be fentanyl.

The sheriff reacted with horror during a press conference.

“Who does that? What mother would do that? That’s not normal. It is sick. It’s beyond my imagination why a mother would do that to her child,” Leeper said at a press conference.

“No one should lose their life to this terrible deadly drug, especially an innocent baby.”

The mother, whose name is not being released, is charged with aggravated manslaughter and possession of a controlled substance.

The case remains under investigation by the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Children and Families.