© WKYCAndrew Frye, a 16-year-old from Ohio, was found dead in a motel room Wednesday of a heroin overdose. His mother and grandmother have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
While Andrew Frye lay dying on the floor of a Super 8 motel room in Green, Ohio, last week, a party raged around him.
The alleged attendees — themselves high from a mixture of heroin and fentanyl — weren't other teenagers but the 16-year-old's mother and grandmother, police say.
Prosecutors say the very people who should have protected the teenager from the dangers of drug use were the ones who walked him to a ledge and "enabled" him to jump.
"We have evidence of drug abuse by more than one person, more than one relative of the deceased," Summit County Sheriff Steve Barry
told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "It appears his mother, her friend and his grandmother, and a friend of the grandmother, all had a hand in obtaining and disseminating heroin among themselves.
"The evidence in this case turns my stomach," Barry said.
The teen's mother, Heather Frye, and her mother, Brenda Frye, face multiple charges, including corrupting another with drugs, child endangering, tampering with evidence and involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony punishable by up to 11 years in prison,
according to the Akron Beacon Journal.
Comment: US police are already doing pretty much as they please with few repercussions. This new ruling will only reinforce their assumption of total impunity, and will no doubt prove to be quite lucrative by making is easier to seize assets.