DA discusses precedent set by mom's murder conviction for son's fatal OD

BATON ROUGE - Whitney Ard will be serving an automatic life sentence for the death of her 2-year-old son."I can't remember a mother being convicted of the death of a child with regard to fentanyl, but certainly not the first murder charge for someone who distributed fentanyl and somebody died," said EBR District Attorney Hillar Moore. While the defense tried to blame drug addiction, it took the jury less than an hour to convict her on murder charges."People have had enough of overdoses