Careless drugged-up mom kills baby by falling asleep on him in the bath

A woman from Kentucky has been found guilty of manslaughter after taking a bath with her 3-month-old son on New Year’s Day while under the influence of drugs, causing him to drown.

36-year-old Amber Winstead will spend almost a decade behind bars, and was sentenced to nine years on Thursday. Winstead pled guilty to the manslaughter charge in November, after her baby son, Ki’Arri Rayne Winstead, died in the horrific accident, which happened at a motel in Louisville on January 1.

According to Law&Crime, she will serve seven years for manslaughter, plus two more years for a parole violation from a 2021 narcotics possession case. Winstead will also need to serve 85 percent of her manslaughter sentence before she is eligible for parole…

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