January 26, 2006

MAN HIGH ON METH SUFFOCATES TWIN DAUGHTERS




How can someone high on meth be sleeping?



LOMPOC, Calif. (AP) — A man high on methamphetamine rolled over in his sleep and suffocated his 1-month-old twin daughters, police said. The man and the girls' mother were sharing their bed with the babies, who died Monday.

Jason Moises Gomez, 31, was ordered held without bail on suspicion of child endangerment causing death, being under the influence of a controlled substance and violating probation, police said.

The babies' mother, Christa Perry, 35, was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance but was released.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says 515 babies died in the United States while sleeping in beds with adults from 1990 through 1997. Of those infants, 121 died after an adult rolled onto or against them.

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