Australian Coroner: Couple Gave Baby Drug Overdose

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SYDNEY -- An Australian toddler died after being given morphine and methadone by either his mother or her boyfriend, but there is not enough evidence to charge either of them, a coroner found on Friday.

The 22-month-old boy was found dead in his vomit-stained cot on Jan. 29, 2006, with a brown substance around his mouth. An autopsy showed a large amount of the drugs had been given to him shortly before he died, and hair tests revealed he'd previously been drugged for at least three months before his death.

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Australian Coroner: Couple Gave Baby Drug Overdose

The boy's mother -- who cannot be named for legal reasons -- left him and her two other childr...

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