Mum arrested after she accidentally gave her toddler methadone

Jill Goff has been given 15 years in prison following the death of her two-year-old son, Aiden.

Aiden died after his mum accidentally filled his sippy cup with her prescribed liquid methadone instead of the Gatorade she had meant to put in it.

Her two other children, aged five and eight, also drank from the cup and needed to be hospitalised.

The death is believed to be accidental and neither the defence nor prosecution called for a prison sentence for Jill.

However, the in the case of tragic Aiden did not agree, Judge Robert Adkins felt the death was the result of extreme negligence, as the boy was not taken to hospital.

An ambulance was not called until after she had encouraged Aiden to throw up and put him down for a nap.

“The court is extremely concerned of your lack of doing anything after your child had consumed that methadone and even when the second child was taken to the hospital,” Judge Adkins stated while handing down the sentence.

“Your children who survived did so without the assistance of you, Ms. Goff.”

Camille Nielson, the distraught aunt of the children, supports the Judge’s decision: “Everyone keeps saying this was an accident. It wasn’t an accident: She laid him down knowing he had overdosed and let him die … She made the choice to let Aiden die, and I think she should have to suffer the consequences of that because everybody else is.”