Meth kills 5-year-old girl who drank bong water, Colorado police say
A 5-year-old girl died after she drank bong water mixed with meth and overdosed, Colorado court records say. Her mother and two of the mother’s cousins were arrested in connection with the girl’s death, local media report.
The mother, Stephanie Alvarado, 26, and cousins Bertha Karina Ceballos-Romo, 28, and Daniel Alvarado, 27, were arrested Thursday, the Denver Post reported. All three were released on bond Friday, FOX31 reported.
“Alvarado was released from the Garfield County jail after posting a $20,000 bond Thursday night,” FOX31 said. “Stephanie’s cousins Daniel Alvarado, age 27 and and Bertha Karina Ceballos-Romo, age 26, were both released on $5,000 bonds.”
The three were arrested on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death, possession of a controlled substance and reckless endangerment, according to the Post Independent. Ceballos-Romo also faces charges of tampering with evidence, according to the Post Independent.
Sophia Larson, the 5-year-old, drank from a bottle that was used as a meth water pipe, the Denver Post reported. She later stopped breathing. The county coroner said Sophia had “very, very high” level of methamphetamine in her blood, the Denver Post said.
The 5-year-old told her mother “she was seeing monsters and demons,” FOX31 reported. Two adults thought Sophia was “possessed by an evil spirit” and quoted Bible verses and prayed, FOX31 said.
When the girlcollapsed they took her to a relative’s house hoping an oxygen machine might help revive her, before finally taking her to a hospital, FOX31 reported.
Police were notified of a 5-year-old girl in medical distress at about 2:20 a.m. Dec. 12, the Post Independent reported. She was taken to Grand River Hospital in a “private vehicle” where “life-saving measures were provided, but unfortunately the juvenile died,” the Post Independent said.
“If they would have taken her when they saw my daughter drank that she may have been a little slow and not right in the head but my daughter would still be here with me today,” Alec Larson, Sophia’s father, told FOX31. “I know I miss her every second, every day. It’s changed me in a way that scares me.”
