Adam Canales and Sarah Canales.Photo: Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office
A 2-month-old Texas girl is dead after her parents allegedly gave her allergy medication, and now those parents are in jail on charges of manslaughter.
Adam Canales Jr., 30, and Sarah Canales, 21, were arrested Thursday, PEOPLE confirms through online jail records.
Anobituary noticegives the name of their deceased infant as Athena Brigida-Kay Canales, and identified her as one of six children in the family.
The father said he’d given the child “gas drops” but no other medication, KCBD reports.
The autopsy later detected diphenhydramine, doxylamine and dextromethorphan in the child’s system, none of which should be given to infants, according to a coroner’s report, which listed a cause of death as “mixed drug toxicity,” KCBD reports.
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The mother allegedly told investigators she’d also given her daughter Benadryl in response to a rash her daughter displayed, even though she said she knows Benadryl is not for infants because “doctors have told her not to and so does the bottle,” according to the warrant.
Deputies who searched the home located a bottle of ZzzQuil, which contains diphenhydramine, and a bottle of children’s multi-symptom cold medicine containing dextromethorphan. When asked if she had ever given the infant Nyquil — which contains acetaminophen, dextromethorphan and doxylamine — the mother answered “not on purpose,” according to the warrant.
The online jail records do not list an attorney or attorneys for the couple, and it was unclear whether either parent had entered a plea. Bond for each was set at $100,000.
source: people.com
