News about David Castro

PICTURED: The three Bay Area babies killed by fentanyl poisoning since May and the tragic stories behind their deaths - including an infant whose two older siblings had already been removed from family by child services

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 7, 2024
More than a million people have died from a drug overdose since 1999, and the epidemic continues to get worse in 2022, compared to 59,000 in 2016. Last year, fentanyl killed 72,815 people, which means that the drug is killing around 2,000 Americans every week. The drug, which is cheap and around fifty times more potent than heroin, has devastated many states, including California, where overdose deaths have increased by 1,652 percent from 109 in 2016 to 1,910 in 2022. Since May, three children in the Bay area have been killed, including three-month-old Phoenix Castro, Winter Rayo, one, and Kristofer Ferreyra, one of three children.

Pittsburgh mom Lenae Mills arrested after infant has to be revived with NARCAN after ingesting fentanyl and cocaine that mom had strewn in with baby toys

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 15, 2023
Lenae Mills, 29, 29, of Pittsburgh, was arrested on Monday after her 11-month-old child was found to be positive for ingesting fentanyl and cocaine. The baby was unresponsive and had to be revived with multiple doses of NARCAN, an emergency drug for narcotic overdoses. Investigators were sent to Children's Hospital on August 4, 2023, for a study that the child ingested opioids. Mills' child was found chewing on something that was later discovered to be 'cotton' used by Mills to inject heroin.

After meddling California lawmakers' decision to ban a child from opioid use, she died of fentanyl overdose

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 6, 2023
Despite repeated warnings from neighbors, baby Phoenix was too young to eat solid food when she was poisoned by the drugs discovered alongside her bottle in May at the San Jose home of David Castro. Older children had been convicted of eight drug charges in the past, but Santa Clara County had recently changed its 'threshold' for removal, citing a commitment to 'racial justice'. The county was also under scrutiny after concerned social workers raised the alarm about progressive lawyers overruling child welfare policies. Officials said they were unaware of 'a single instance where a child was found to be 'unsafe' and was later left in the custody of the offending parent.'

Here's a look at what the cast has been up to as the film 27 Dresses turns 15

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 16, 2023
The cast has had its own shares of highs and lows since being out 15 years old, and the actress has seen fluctuations throughout the years. After slamming Grey's Anatomy and other projects, Heigl gained a bad reputation. Marsden divorced Lisa Linde in 2011 but found new love with British singer Edei. Following Akerman's suggestion of 27 Babies, rumors of a 27 Dresses sequel have circulated, but no further information has been revealed. Peyton List and David Castro, two of the film's children, went on to become well-known as adults with successful Hollywood careers.