Official: Mother injected daughter, other teen with heroin
COATESVILLE (AP) – Prosecutors said a suburban Philadelphia woman repeatedly injected her 14-year-old daughter and another teen with heroin.
Jessica Lynn Riffey’s arrest was announced Monday. Prosecutors said the 34-year-old woman from West Caln Township supplied the 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy with heroin, tied a string around their arms to isolate veins and injected them on multiple occasions last month.
Riffey was charged with corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of children and drug delivery. She was jailed in lieu of $50,000 pending a preliminary hearing Friday. Online court records didn’t list a lawyer to comment on the charges.
Prosecutors said Riffey’s boyfriend also supplied heroin for the teens to snort. He’s been charged separately with drug dealing and other offenses.