A North Carolina “mother” (or should I say monster) has been charged with felony second-degree murder after her young child died from a fentanyl overdose.
According to reports, 23-year-old Riley Tehy Wormington was charged with felony second-degree murder and two counts of felony child abuse, two counts of felony possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, felony maintaining a dwelling for a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police have filed second-degree murder charges against Riley Tehy Wormington, who is now in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service after her young child died from fentanyl exposure at her North Carolina home last year. https://t.co/4Oc7Mr831d
— OnNow (@MyWayOnNow) February 24, 2025
She was arrested in Colorado on Tuesday by U.S. Marshalls, a year after the death of her baby. During that year, Wormington left North Carolina and had ANOTHER baby, all while the death of her first child was under investigation.
Mother of the year right there.
WHKY reports:
On February 13, 2024, Mooresville Police Officers responded to 407 Ridge Avenue in Mooresville in reference to a medical call involving a child under two years of age. Despite lifesaving efforts, the child did not survive. Mooresville Police Department Detectives began an investigation into the child’s death. During the investigation, it was determined that the death was the result of fentanyl toxicity after the child ingested a lethal dose of the drug.
Mother accused of killing her child with fentanyl ingestion in North Carolina arrested in Denver.
She has warrants for 2nd degree murder, child abuse, possession Schedule II controlled substance, maintaining a dwelling for a controlled substance, & more https://t.co/LYxIE8MnF5
— Margo (@MargoinWNC) February 23, 2025
Newsweek added, “A May 2023 study found that pediatric deaths from fentanyl increased ‘more than 30-fold’ between 2013 and 2021. It reported that fentanyl was implicated in 38 percent of fatal pediatric opioid poisonings, 5,194 of the 13,861, between 1999 and 2021.”