Couple Charged In Death Of Baby After 3-Day Crack Binge

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BOCA RATON, Fla. -- A month-old baby died while his parents were on a three-day crack cocaine binge that began after Thanksgiving dinner, police said.

Sonia Thomas, 39, and Neal Anthony Bryan, 46, have been charged with child neglect and other charges could be filed after a cause of death is determined, Boca Raton police spokesman Jeff Kelly said Tuesday.

The couple called 911 about 4 p.m. Saturday after Bryan awoke to find his son on the bed next to him, not wearing a diaper and not breathing, according to a police report.

Thomas told investigators the baby was blue and she could tell he was dead. She ran to the kitchen and sprinkled water on him in an attempt to "get him back," the report said. He was soon pronounced dead at a hospital. Police and state Department of Children & Families officials, who are also investigating the death, refused to release the baby's name Tuesday, saying it's DCF policy not to release the names of possible child abuse victims.

Thomas, who told authorities that she was a former addict who had been drug-free for three years, and Bryan gave police conflicting stories. Each claimed to have cared for the baby before admitting that they smoked about $500 worth of crack cocaine over three days, police reports show.

Thomas said Bryan gave the infant a bath at 9 a.m. Saturday, and that she fed and changed him, and then Bryan carried him into the bedroom. Bryan said he put the infant in his crib in the bedroom and continued to smoke crack in the living room before returning to the room to sleep. Bryan said he didn't put the baby on the bed with him and said he didn't know how the baby got there.

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Jesus, get it out of here.

Awful.

period

eom

I can't read stuff like this.

Ug.