David Anthony Castro has been charged with child neglect after his infant daughter was found unresponsive among scattered drugs in a South San Jose home in May.
SAN JOSE — A man has been charged in the fentanyl overdose death of his infant daughter after she was found unresponsive at their South San Jose home earlier this year, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.in August, but authorities at the time would only confirm that an investigation was taking place and declined to release additional details.
In a news release outlining the criminal case, prosecutors state that San Jose police were called the morning of May 13 to an apartment on Spinnaker Drive, near Oak Grove High School, where officers found 3-month-old Phoenix unconscious. She later died after being taken to a hospital. “I can’t fathom how a parent could recklessly cause the death of their own child,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in statement. “What I fully understand is our responsibility to hold that person accountable for this heartbreaking tragedy.”
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