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Montco Mother Gets Jail For Injecting Daughter With Heroin: Report

The mother drove her 15-year-old daughter to drug deals to buy the drug, and then injected her with the drugs herself.

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NORRISTOWN, PA - A Montgomery County woman will spend the next five to 10 years in prison for injecting her 15-year-old daughter with heroin, according to reports.

Patricia Davenport, 37, let her daughter, now 17, “wither away,” Philly.com reports.

Davenport gave the girl heroin to snort in their Harleysville home, drove her to Philadelphia to buy it, and injected the girl and her boyfriend with it, reports state.

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Prosecutors compared Davenport’s actions to infecting her child with leprosy or cancer, the report states.

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