A Texas father has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his toddler’s fentanyl death.
Michael Reed, 28, of Mansfield, pleaded guilty to and was convicted of injury to a child, causing serious bodily injury to his two-year-old daughter, Fox4News reported. Reed’s sister and roommate at the time, Jamie Popovic, was charged with abandoning and endangering a child.
Officials said Reed waited two hours before calling 911 after his daughter Nevaeh ingested fentanyl-laced pills in February 2024, according to the report. Mansfield police ultimately responded to his apartment on Towne Crossing Boulevard just after 10 p.m., and paramedics performed CPR on the child before transporting her to a hospital. She was declared brain-dead and died ten days later at the hospital, according to the report…