A 36-year-old woman pleaded guilty last week to second-degree manslaughter domestic violence for causing the death of her 3-year-old daughter in 2022 when she left fentanyl out in her Kent apartment that the girl ingested.
Carolyn D. Franklin entered the guilty plea June 5 in King County Superior Court, according to court documents. Her trial was scheduled to start this summer.
“On Nov. 4, 2022, I did with criminal negligence cause the death of my daughter (age 3), who died on Nov. 4, 2022,” Franklin wrote on her plea of guilty statement. “Specifically, I did negligently leave fentanyl (a potentially lethal drug) out where (she) could access it, and without my knowledge it was ingested by (her) which resulted in her death.”…