WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Kate Jones was leaving work when she got a call from her 12-year-old daughter saying her other two kids, 10 and 14, hadn’t gotten out of bed yet
A mum came home to find two of her kids dead in bed after overdosing on fentanyl.
Kate Jones from Maryland, US, was on her way back from work on January 24 last year when she received a terrifying call from her 12-year-old daughter Allyson. Her two other kids, Gaige, 10 and Skylar, 14, still hadn’t gotten out of bed.
Kate recounted what she said on the phone to People. “I said, ‘Are they breathing?’” before then telling Allyson to get her grandparents to help. The ambulance was called and she rushed home. She said: “I get to the house, I run up the steps. I opened the door and I looked in, and of course I knew — a 12-year-old little girl’s not going to know, but I knew.”
Despite resuscitation efforts, they were both pronounced dead.
The kids who were very close had the day off school because it was a snow day and had been cuddled up in bed together watching movies the night before. A baggy was found next to the bed and it was found that they had accidentally overdosed on fentanyl. Kate said she had no idea where the drugs bag came from.
Authorities conducted an investigation, which is still underway. They first seized ‘drug paraphernalia and cell phones,’ which referred to the baggie found next to Skylar’s bed.
Kate said she realised it was an overdose the minute that police found the baggie, though autopsy results took time to come in.
She said: “Skylar, my oldest — that’s my best friend. The one who made me a mom. And my son was my mama’s boy. [Skylar] had her eyelashes, lip gloss, that whole thing.” Kate said her daughter had big dreams and wanted to become either a music producer or an interior designer. “She was so smart,” she said.
She described Gaige as an “all-American little boy” who loved dinosaurs and was full of life. “He was so smart. So caring and sweet. He’d give you the shirt off his back,” she said.
Kate is now doing charity work to try and immortalise her kids.
She wants parents to remember to appreciate every second they have with their kids. She added: “It could be your kid any day. Your kid could be just an honor roll student in AP classes. Your son could be just playing on monkey bars or skating or riding his bike with his friends the day before and then … you just never know.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 100,000 Americans are dying of drug overdoses each year. Most of these deaths are from fentanyl.
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