I read about this in the paper this morning and it truly disgusting. What the story doesn't say is that Miss Farruggia has 5 or 6 other children who were already in state custody when this incident happened.
CONCORD, N.H. — A 29-year-old Granite State woman who demanded her friend use a dirty syringe to shoot her up with heroin and methamphetamine as she was going into labor is behind bars — and so his her pal, who injected her moments before she gave birth in the back of an ambulance, police announced yesterday.
Felicia Farruggia, of Concord, was arrested earlier this week on a charge of felony reckless conduct, six months after her son was born with methamphetamine and amphetamine in his system, Concord police said. Her friend, Rhianna Frenette, 37, of Belmont, N.H., is facing a misdemeanor count on the same offense for allegedly dosing Farruggia before anyone called 911.
Farruggia’s son, who was born Sept. 16 in stable condition, was breathing rapidly upon delivery, police say. He is now in state custody.
At the time of her son’s birth, police said, Farruggia’s urine tested positive for methamphetamine, amphetamine and benzodiazepine.
“This case is just, honestly, absolutely appalling in my mind,” Concord police Lt. Sean Ford said yesterday.
“No one died,” he said. “But the risk to that child and to the mother ... This stuff is just getting out of control.”
Both women were arraigned from jail yesterday. Farruggia was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail and bail was set at $25,000 for Frenette.
Although Farruggia “was in full-blown labor” inside a home on Elmwood Avenue, she said Frenette offered to shoot her up with heroin to “take the edge off,” according to court documents.
But Frenette told police she found Farruggia on the bathroom floor, “essentially mutilating herself with a needle” in a desperate attempt to get the drugs into her system, police said.
Frenette also said Farruggia was “very hostile” and wouldn’t allow her boyfriend or Frenette to call for an ambulance until the drugs were in her system.
Although she admitted to injecting Farruggia with an unsanitary needle and acknowledged what she did was wrong, police said, Frenette said she only did it because she’s a “people pleaser.”
A short time later, firefighters arrived at the home and helped Farruggia give birth to her son as she was being loaded into a waiting ambulance, court documents show.
After her arrest, police said, Farruggia told investigators she took drugs through more than half of her pregnancy.
No one answered the door yesterday at the Elmwood Avenue home where the incident occurred, which was boarded up and plastered with numerous “no trespassing” signs.
Both women have criminal records. Farruggia has been involved in “guardianship of a minor” cases, an individual parenting petition and a custody petition dating back to 2005.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2017/03/cops_woman_giving_birth_demanded_opiod_fix
CONCORD, N.H. — A 29-year-old Granite State woman who demanded her friend use a dirty syringe to shoot her up with heroin and methamphetamine as she was going into labor is behind bars — and so his her pal, who injected her moments before she gave birth in the back of an ambulance, police announced yesterday.
Felicia Farruggia, of Concord, was arrested earlier this week on a charge of felony reckless conduct, six months after her son was born with methamphetamine and amphetamine in his system, Concord police said. Her friend, Rhianna Frenette, 37, of Belmont, N.H., is facing a misdemeanor count on the same offense for allegedly dosing Farruggia before anyone called 911.
Farruggia’s son, who was born Sept. 16 in stable condition, was breathing rapidly upon delivery, police say. He is now in state custody.
At the time of her son’s birth, police said, Farruggia’s urine tested positive for methamphetamine, amphetamine and benzodiazepine.
“This case is just, honestly, absolutely appalling in my mind,” Concord police Lt. Sean Ford said yesterday.
“No one died,” he said. “But the risk to that child and to the mother ... This stuff is just getting out of control.”
Both women were arraigned from jail yesterday. Farruggia was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail and bail was set at $25,000 for Frenette.
Although Farruggia “was in full-blown labor” inside a home on Elmwood Avenue, she said Frenette offered to shoot her up with heroin to “take the edge off,” according to court documents.
But Frenette told police she found Farruggia on the bathroom floor, “essentially mutilating herself with a needle” in a desperate attempt to get the drugs into her system, police said.
Frenette also said Farruggia was “very hostile” and wouldn’t allow her boyfriend or Frenette to call for an ambulance until the drugs were in her system.
Although she admitted to injecting Farruggia with an unsanitary needle and acknowledged what she did was wrong, police said, Frenette said she only did it because she’s a “people pleaser.”
A short time later, firefighters arrived at the home and helped Farruggia give birth to her son as she was being loaded into a waiting ambulance, court documents show.
After her arrest, police said, Farruggia told investigators she took drugs through more than half of her pregnancy.
No one answered the door yesterday at the Elmwood Avenue home where the incident occurred, which was boarded up and plastered with numerous “no trespassing” signs.
Both women have criminal records. Farruggia has been involved in “guardianship of a minor” cases, an individual parenting petition and a custody petition dating back to 2005.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2017/03/cops_woman_giving_birth_demanded_opiod_fix
