Woman Arrested For Giving Her 14 Year Old Daughter And 16 Year Old Boy Injection of Heroin

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A woman from Philadelphia repeatedly injected her 14-year-old daughter and another teenager with heroin, the woman even began tying a string around their arms to isolate their veins.

The Chester County district attorney’s office alleged that Jessica Lynn Riffey, 34, of West Caln Township, supplied the 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy with heroin and injected them multiple times last month.

She was jailed in lieu of $50,000 pending a preliminary hearing Friday. Online court records didn’t list a lawyer who could comment on the charges.

‘Supplying anyone with heroin is a potential death sentence,’ Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said in a press release. ‘Injecting children, including your own daughter, with heroin demonstrates a depravity that defies belief.’

District Attorney Thomas Hogan said the family lived in a trailer in which numerous people were using heroin.

He said the mother was supposed to be caring for and protecting her daughter and instead exposed her to the drug and enabled her use of it.

‘It’s hard to make that leap as a parent, to think how you end up in that position,’ he said.

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