Docs: Seattle mom charged for fentanyl death of 1-year-old previously lost custody of other child

A Seattle mother has been charged for allegedly being responsible for her one-year-old child consuming fentanyl, and dying from that consumption, prosecutors say.

Just after midnight on Aug. 23, Seattle police officers and medics responded to an apartment on S Grand St. for a child who reportedly wasn’t breathing.

Divina Tangalan (who also goes by Nakiah Cunningham), 39, told responding officers that she had fallen asleep on the couch with her 1-year-old child. When she woke up, the infant, still in her arms, was limp and not breathing, according to court documents…

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