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Pennsylvania Mom on meth ‘suffocates newborn infant by falling asleep on him after killing her first baby the same way’
A MOM allegedly fell asleep on her infant son and suffocated him to death while high on meth - and cops say this is the second child she's killed in the same manner.
Rebecca Hallock faces several felony charges related to the November 2019 death of her three-week-old son.
A forensic pathologist said the baby's cause of death was “compatible with mechanical asphyxia due to co-sleeping with parent,” according to .
Court documents obtained by revealed a blood test showed that the 37-year-old mom had methamphetamine and THC in her system at the time of the newborn's death.
The months-long investigation by cops concluded that Hallock was responsible for her son's death when she co-slept with him while high.
But cops say this isn't the first time one of her children died under these circumstances.
An arrest affidavit obtained by PaHomePage says Hallock admitted that a similar situation happened in 2017 when she was resting beside her one-month-old daughter.
She said the little girl had suffocated when she woke up.
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Hallock was arrested on Friday and charged with involuntary manslaughter for the 2019 death.
The Scranton resident also faces charges of reckless endangerment of another person and endangering welfare of children in the same case.
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