Mom seen 'singing and dancing' before killing 11-month-old baby, went to 'great lengths to concoct a story' about how she was innocent: DA

A Washington state parent was allegedly caught connected video "singing and dancing" earlier sidesplitting her baby with fentanyl, with prosecutors saying she "went to large lengths to concoct a story" astir however she was innocent.

Safarah Red, 33, is charged with manslaughter for sidesplitting her 11-month-old son successful 2024 with a dose of fentanyl that she tried claiming came from an "unknown assailant" who attacked her and the kid at a Seattle bid station, according to tribunal documents filed successful King County Superior Court.

A probable origin affidavit obtained by Law&Crime says Red called constabulary astir 2 a.m. and alleged that her son was not breathing pursuing an onslaught that occurred 3 hours earlier.

"During the 911 call, Red told dispatchers that that battle had occurred astatine the Light Rail station," the affidavit recounts. "She explained she came location and made her lad a vessel and past woke up connected the ground."

Call notes made by the dispatcher accidental Red "sounded precocious oregon intoxicated" and she was claiming that her child "might have" been exposed to a substance that an "unknown antheral had forced successful her mouth" during the alleged attack, per the affidavit.

"Dispatch provided instructions to Red for CPR owed to the kid nary longer breathing but it appeared she was not listening to 911 and successful excessively overmuch of an elevated authorities to travel these directions," the affidavit says. "She conscionable continued to say, 'I'm sorry! I'm truthful sorry! I'm sorry!'"

Police officers showed up to Red's residence but she allegedly refused to travel to the door. The officers were forced to interruption into the apartment, with officers uncovering Red wrong "crying uncontrollably" and yelling, "I'm sorry" to herself.

Red's lad was already dormant erstwhile authorities arrived and "cold to the touch" connected a mattress connected the floor, the affidavit says.

A lawsuit summary and bail petition filed by prosecutors, which was besides obtained by Law&Crime, says Red told investigators that a antheral had attacked her earlier successful the evening and forced a "white substance that tasted similar fentanyl" into her rima astatine a southbound Seattle airy obstruction station. She allegedly claimed that her babe lad whitethorn person been exposed arsenic well.

"Investigators accidental that relationship was mendacious and allege Red was a known fentanyl idiosyncratic who had antecedently been investigated by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) for cause usage astir her baby," the lawsuit summary says. "The suspect went to large lengths to concoct a communicative astir however an chartless idiosyncratic supposedly forced a 'white substance' into her rima connected nationalist proscription and that, according to the defendant, 'it tasted similar fentanyl."'"

Prosecutors accidental Red provided a "generalized statement of this chartless assailant" to instrumentality enforcement successful an effort to "cover up her ain actions and pb instrumentality enforcement to analyse her claim," per the lawsuit summary.

"Interestingly, the flat surveillance video shows the suspect with the unfortunate entering the analyzable aft the expected onslaught and going to the message country wherever she appeared to beryllium dancing and not successful a authorities of distress, antagonistic to her mentation of events," the summary alleges.

According to the probable origin affidavit, Red was captured connected surveillance video pushing a stroller with her lad successful it portion "singing and dancing." Police reviewed footage from the airy obstruction presumption during the times Red said the alleged onslaught happened and were incapable to find her connected camera, per the affidavit.

"The chartless antheral … enactment a achromatic entity successful her rima that Red stated, 'tasted similar fentanyl,'" the affidavit explains, citing statements Red gave to police.

"She said it began dissolving arsenic she tried spitting it out," according to the affidavit. "She was pushed to the crushed by the antheral aft being punched successful the look aggregate times. The antheral grabbed her wallet and fled the scene."

While recounting the onslaught communicative to police, Red said she darted location and laid her lad down connected the mattress earlier passing out, according to the affidavit. Red allegedly claimed she "woke up aboriginal and recovered [her son] foaming astatine the mouth, laying successful the aforesaid presumption she had near him in."

Police accidental Red told them she gave her lad "several doses of Narcan and placed him successful the ablution arsenic she had seen connected TV." After that, she said she called 911.

"While she was connected the telephone with 911, flat surveillance video shows the suspect throwing 2 trash bags distant successful the trash chute," the lawsuit summary alleges. "The contents of those bags were ne'er recovered and are unknown, however, it appeared getting escaped of those items were of the utmost value to the suspect fixed the information that she was inactive connected the telephone with dispatch portion the 11 period aged unfortunate was non-responsive wrong the flat unit."

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Prosecutors accidental that the autopsy performed connected Red's lad "revealed levels of norfentanyl that bespeak apt chronic vulnerability to the controlled substance," according to the lawsuit summary.

"The suspect had entree to services and yet inactive placed specified a susceptible unfortunate successful a unsafe presumption wherever they were capable to get a deadly narcotic," the summary explains, noting however Red had been enactment connected announcement anterior to this decease occurring by societal workers.

"In November 2023, a DCYF societal idiosyncratic met with the suspect astatine her location and reminded her of however deadly fentanyl tin beryllium to children," the lawsuit summary says. "At that time, the suspect said she was alert and volition travel harmless procedures if she uses. She besides pulled retired a drawer afloat of Narcan successful the room drawer and showed a lockbox connected apical of her descend successful the room area. This announcement was astir a twelvemonth anterior to the suspect recklessly causing the decease of a child."

Red was being held this week astatine the King County Jail, with her bail acceptable astatine $500,000. She is owed backmost successful tribunal connected April 28.