A woman convicted in her daughter’s death will not be getting a lesser prison sentence.
FOX11 reports that an Outagamie County Judge rejected a request to reduce 30-year-old Brooke Seals’ nine-year prison term after her 2-year-old daughter passed away after ingesting fentanyl.
Seal was arrested in 2024 after a toxicology report showed that the 2-year-old died from the exposure to the potent drug; however, how she got access isn’t known.
According to the judges’ ruling, while Seal was a good employee and a mother, she did struggle with addiction.
The court also imposed the sentence due to the seriousness of Seal’s actions, “engaging in illegal drug use and leaving dangerous, illegal substances where her child could tragically consume them and die.”
Another person, 43-year-old Faheem Jones, is also facing charges in the toddler’s death.
A criminal complaint says that a backpack that belongs to him was found to have a stolen gun, ammunition, and over 1,400 pills that tested positive for fentanyl.
He’s scheduled to go to trial in January.
