San Jose father pleads not guilty over baby's fentanyl death
New sentence enhancements could land David Castro in prison for up to 10 years if convicted on all counts.
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New sentence enhancements could land David Castro in prison for up to 10 years if convicted on all counts.
The special hearing was called by Santa Clara County Supervisors Cindy Chavez and Sylvia Arenas after extensive reporting by the Bay Area News Group found that the Department of Family and Children’s Services discarded numerous red flags before sending baby Phoenix Castro home with her father.
The Santa Clara Board of Supervisors is officially pushing for child welfare reforms, months after a three-month-old baby died of an opioid overdose.
The mystery of how a 3-month-old South San Jose infant could have ingested and died of a fentanyl overdose was revealed in court, the same day the father was denied bail.
The mystery of how a 3-month-old infant could have ingested and died of a fentanyl overdose was revealed in court Monday, the same day the father, David Castro, was denied bail in felony child endangerment case.