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West Yorkshire toddler ‘drank toxic cannabis food’
A two-year-old died after drinking poisonous plant food his mother was using to grow cannabis, a court heard.
Lauren Booth, 24, was allegedly growing the drug in her home in Norris Close, Huddersfield, and the court heard she was asleep when her son Aaron drank the toxic liquid just after midday on November 6 2010.
Aaron had not been fed that day and was probably extremely hungry and thirsty when he drank the pH Up brand plant food, commonly used in hydroponic growing, Bradford Crown Court was told.
Booth, who had gone to bed at around 6am that day, denied wilfully ill-treating or neglecting her son.
Thomas Storey, prosecuting, said information on a notebook and laptop seized from the house by police, as well as Booth’s comments to Aaron’s father while their son was in hospital, showed that the plant food was being used for growing cannabis.
Aaron died 11 days later at Leeds General Infirmary after his windpipe disintegrated. He had suffered several other injuries, including burns to his stomach, pancreas and spleen.
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