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Are drugged babies’ mothers guilty?
Medical evidence, mom’s history studied in weighing charges
By Chris Echegaray THE TENNESSEAN
May 19, 2009
Taishon Copeland’s 16-day life was spent hooked up to machines at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, flushing cocaine, marijuana and opiates out of his system.
When he died on July 3, 2007, prosecutors turned to his mother, a prostitute who also had convictions for shoplifting and possessing drug paraphernalia. Lateshia Coleman sits in a Metro jail cell charged with reckless homicide in the death of her son, unable to make her $10,000 bond, waiting for a June 4 court date.
It took well over a year to indict Coleman, a testament to the long and serious look prosecutors, social workers and victim advocates take at cases involving unborn children placed in harm’s way by their mothers’ behavior. That constitutes about six cases a year in Davidson County, said prosecutor Brian Holmgren, who serves on the county team that decides whether to charge accused mothers and handles most child abuse cases.

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