ALEXIS GREENE - 6 Weeks (2010) - Campobello (NW of Spartanburg) SC

A 6-week-old baby in South Carolina died after she received lethal
doses of the painkiller morphine through her mother's breast milk,
authorities said Friday.Stephanie
Greene, 37, was charged with homicide by child abuse after a
seven-month investigation that began when her daughter, Alexis, was
found dead in her bed in her Campobello home. Authorities say the
painkiller got into Greene's breast milk after she took pills and used
patches containing morphine constantly since the child's birth.Spartanburg
County deputies opened a homicide investigation in January when autopsy
results showed a lethal level of morphine in the child's body.Breast-feeding
mothers are allowed to take morphine because low levels of the
painkiller pass into the mother's milk when taken properly, said Diana West, a spokeswoman for La Leche League International, which encourages breast-feeding in new mothers."Most
drugs like morphine pass so poorly through human milk that it is nearly
impossible for a child to have a therapeutic dose, much less a lethal
dose," West said.Authorities
said their investigation shows Greene illegally obtained the drugs at
least 38 times in less than two years at a Spartanburg pharmacy,
according to state Department of Health and Environmental Control investigators.That
led authorities also to charge Greene with 38 counts of violating drug
distribution laws. If convicted, Greene faces up to 5 years in prison
for each felony count. She also faces 20 years to life in prison if
convicted of homicide by child abuse.Greene
was being held in the Spartanburg County jail awaiting a bond hearing.
Her husband, Randy, refused to talk about the case or give the name of
his wife's attorney when reached by phone by an Associated
Press reporter."You know about as much as I do right now," he said.
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/SC-police-Baby-died-from-morphine-in-breast-milk-1439249.php#ixzz1QIb0uwwD

The Campobello mother accused of killing her baby by feeding her
breast milk containing prescription painkillers has been denied bond.
Stephanie Irene Greene, 37, of 180 Kimbrell Loop, has been
charged by the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office with homicide by
child abuse.She remains at the Spartanburg County Detention Facility without bond.According
to a press release, deputies and the Spartanburg County Coroner’s
Office began investigating the case on Nov. 13, 2010, after Greene’s
1½-month-old died at home. Toxicology tests after an autopsy was
performed showed lethal levels of morphine, a prescription pain killer,
in the baby’s body. The drug had been passed to the infant through
Greene’s breast milk, according to the release.“The findings in
this case determined that the mother was taking prescription medication
that contained morphine while nursing her infant child,” the release
said.Greene has also been charged through the S.C. Department of
Health and Environmental Control with 38 counts of violation of drug
distribution laws.According to SCDHEC, Greene presented
fraudulent prescriptions for two patch-form and two pill-form
painkillers at an Inman pharmacy between March 2009 and December 2010.
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20110626/ARTICLES/106261034/1051/sitemaps

A judge has denied bond for a mother charged
with passing a lethal dose of the painkiller morphine to her daughter
through breast milk.
The mother, 37-year-old Stephanie Greene, was
charged Friday with homicide by child abuse after police say she
illegally received the drugs. Over the weekend, she was denied bond.

Investigators say Greene's 6-week-old
daughter, Alexis, was found dead in her parents' bed in their Campobello
home on November 13, 2010.
Autopsy results showed high levels of
morphine -- which they say was illegally obtained -- in the child's
blood. Authorities say the painkiller got into Greene's breast milk
after she took pills and used patches containing morphine constantly
since the baby's birth.
Greene has been prolific on the web, writing about her child's death several times.
A day after the baby's funeral, Greene, wrote:
"Lexi
(Alexis) was born 'sunny side up', and she was so sunny, such a good
baby, such an angel in life, realy [sic] the sunshine of our lives,"
according to a post on a funeral home memory page, where she is
identified as Stephanie I. Havko Greene.
"We miss her beyond words, each day has been
harder than the last. I thought the clusure [sic] we would get from the
funeral today would help, but that has yet too [sic] happen."
Investigators say Greene, who is a 1991
graduate of Chapman High School in Inman, illegally obtained the drugs
at least 38 times in less than two years.
Greene, who also claims to be 1995
USC-Upstate grad, also wrote on the funeral home website: "I've never
been through anything this painful in my life. It means a lot to know
how much everyone cares, though."
Authorities told the Associated Press that
their investigation found Greene illegally obtained the drugs at least
38 times in less than two years at a Spartanburg pharmacy, according to
state Department of Health and Environmental Control investigators.
According to WSPA-TV, investigators say she received some drugs from a CVS in Inman. Those include:

• Fentanyl - Pain med that comes in Patch form.
  Often given to people who suffer from constant pain.
  
• Duragesic - Pain med along the
  same type as Fentanyl.
  
• Morphene - In pill form
  
• Hydrocodone - also known as
  Vicoprofen if mixed with ibuprofen.
  

On a Facebook page that appears to be
Greene's, she says she is originally from Pittsburgh and talks about
family and being a mother.
"Family comes first, and I love being a mommy and the unconditional love from them."
Also on Facebook, she reflected on Alexis' death 3 months later:
"The
day before our anniversary and Valentine's day was the 3 month
anniversary of Lexi's death. So, Valentine's Day and our(6th)
anniversary were just not the same, hard to celebrate."
Friday afternoon Greene was awaiting a bond
hearing. Her husband refused to speak with an Associated Press reporter
or give her attorney's name when reached by phone.
In early January, Greene also posted on her Facebook page that she hoped for a better 2011.
"Instead of praying for why I've had to face
these challenges, I need to pray for resilience and the ability to
overcome them!" she wrote.
http://www.wafb.com/story/14973274/sc-baby-died-from-drugs-in-breast-milk-police-say

A Spartanburg mother charged with homicide by child abuse after
investigators say she killed her child by passing a lethal dose of
morphine through her breast milk has been released from jail on bond.The Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reports that a judge ordered 37-year-old Stephanie Greene to stay in home detention after she was let out of jail Wednesday on the $100,000 bond.Greene's
6-week old daughter was found dead in November. Prosecutors say the
infant died from an overdose of morphine and another prescription drug.
They say Greene was seeing at least two doctors to obtain
the painkillers.Greene's
attorney said she should be released because she was taking medicine
prescribed to her by a doctor who should have known she was
breast feeding.
Read more: http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Spartanburg-mom-gets-bond-in-breast-feeding-death-1524632.php#ixzz1SkmBMUMa

Mom jailed for giving baby morphine overdose through breast milk



A South Carolina judge sentenced Stephanie Greene to 20 years behind bars after baby Alexis was killed by a morphine overdose. The mom, who was a trained nurse, claims she needed morphine to deal with debilitating pain from a car crash.


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Why was this nurse breast feeding her baby?  She knew what it would do to the infant.  Was this a planned murder, one she thought she could get by with?

This drug addict murdering POS deserves life in prison where she can't get any more drugs. I hope she goes through eternal withdrawals for what she did to that baby. And what is up with her husband supporting her? She killed his child.

I don't understand him standing by her.  Yes, she murdered his baby and she well knew it when she was taking morphine for gawd's sake.  A nurse!!!  Thank heavens she will never "nurse" again either in her profession or from her breast.

That's why I want them to take her to trial on all the drug charges, to ensure she stays in prison.  I don't know what kind of laws SC has about early parole but this murdering bitch should not get out.

Mom gets minimum sentence for killing infant with her morphine-laced breast milk: How much time?

Stephanie Greene, 39 (AP)


By John Luciew | jluciew@pennlive.com
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on April 07, 2014 at 8:25 AM


Stephanie Greene was a nurse. Prosecutors argued that the 39-year-old South Carolina mother knew the dangers of taking painkillers while pregnant and breast feeding.

Instead, she chose to conceal her pregnancy from doctors so she could keep getting her painkiller prescriptions.

She even lost her nursing license in 2004 for trying to get drugs illegally. All this, according to published reports.

Still, Greene received the minimum prison sentence late last week after being convicted of killing her 6-week-old daughter with what prosecutors say was an overdose of morphine delivered through her breast milk.

The 20-year sentence was the minimum after a Spartanburg County jury found Greene guilty of homicide by child abuse Friday, the New York Post is reporting.


She could have faced up to life behind bars.

Greene would have to serve 16 years before she is eligible for parole. She said nothing in court and quietly shuffled out of the courtroom, her hands and feet shackled, after she was sentenced, the newspaper reported.

Background: The mother’s defense claimed she remains racked with chronic pain from a 1998 wreck where she fractured her skull and pelvis.

“She needed those meds to get up in the morning and function,” her lawyer Rauch Wise told the media. “She was on total disability because of her pain, her fibromyalgia and all the other things wrong with her.”

A toxicology report from the baby’s autopsy found a level of morphine in the child’s body that a pathologist testified could have been lethal for an adult.

The baby girl was Greene’s fourth child.


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She should have gotten life. And if she really needed the pain meds, she shouldn't have been nursing. If this was her 4th child, she probably took drugs during her pregnancies so it's surprising the baby didn't die during pregnancy.

I hope she isn't able to have any more kids by the time she gets out of prison.

That's what pisses me off.  If she wanted to be a druggie WTH didn't she put her tiny infant on formula? 

What is her husband thinking?

She should rot in prison.