CNN logo Navigation Infoseek/Big Yellow Pathfinder/Warner Bros Main banner $9.95 Unlimited Internet. Click Here. rule POLICE: DRUG-ADDICT MOM KILLED BABY WITH BREAST MILK Powell July 31, 1997 Web posted at: 10:55 p.m. EDT (0255 GMT) TUCSON, Arizona (AP) -- Police have charged a woman with murder, claiming her breast milk was so full of heroin and methadone that it killed her 7-week-old daughter. The father was also charged with murder for not intervening, authorities said. "It's true with any form of child abuse that it's preventable, but this one seems to be more preventable. It seems to be more of a conscious choice," Tucson Police Detective Sgt. Brett Klein said Thursday. Doctors put Eve Powell into the intensive care unit after she was born on May 16 because she was dependent on methadone, the opium-based drug used to help wean heroin addicts. Before sending Eve home from the hospital a month later, medical workers warned the baby's 24-year-old mother, Amoret Powell, that resuming her heroin habit while breast-feeding could kill the baby, police said. But on July 10, tiny Eve was rushed to another hospital,suffering from severe oxygen deprivation. She died the next day. On Wednesday, authorities charged Amoret Powell with first-degree murder, alleging that she killed her daughter by giving her drug-filled breast milk. Police found used syringes and other drug paraphernalia in her home, and she admitted using heroin after Eve's birth, Klein said. Test results from Eve's body are pending, but doctors say the heroin-methadone combination can cause the oxygen deprivation that killed the baby. Eve's father, Robin Johnson, 33, also was charged with murder because the death resulted from child abuse and he did nothing to stop it, Klein said. Each is being held on $1 million bond. Powell is not the first mother to face a murder charge fornursing a child while using drugs. A jury in Bakersfield, California, deadlocked on a murder charge but convicted a woman of child endangerment after she nursed while using methamphetamine. Another woman in Los Angeles pleaded guilty to child endangerment for also nursing while using methamphetamine. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Search for related CNN stories: ________________________________________ ______ [Help] Tip: You can restrict your search to the title of a document. Infoseek grfk Example: title:New Year's Resolutions rule Message Boards Sound off on our message boards Tell us what you think! You said it... [INLINE] $9.95 Unlimited Internet. Click Here. rule To the top © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.