Chesco mom gets jail for injecting teens with heroin
A Chester County mother arrested in October for injecting her 14-year-old daughter and another teenager with heroin was sentenced this week to 41/2 to 10 years in prison.
A Chester County mother arrested in October for injecting her 14-year-old daughter and another teenager with heroin was sentenced this week to 41/2 to 10 years in prison.
Jessica Lynn Riffey, 34, of West Caln Township, pleaded guilty Monday in Chester County Court to four counts of delivery of heroin and one count each of endangering the welfare of children and conspiracy, the case's prosecutor said.
In addition to prison time, Riffey was placed on five years' probation.
Under the plea agreement, the prosecutor said, she plans to testify against her boyfriend, Jameson Burn, who police said supplied heroin and drug paraphernalia to Riffey and the teenagers. Burn has been wanted by law enforcement since he failed to turn himself in to West Caln police in October.
The agreement also prohibits Riffey from contact with her daughter unless she receives permission from the court.
Judge William P. Mahon accepted the agreement, which Riffey's public defender, P.J. Redmond, negotiated with Assistant District Attorney Megan King.
"As a prosecutor and as a mother, it's a particularly disturbing set of facts," King said.
Police said Riffey tied the draw string of a hooded sweatshirt around the upper arms of her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend and injected them with heroin multiple times last summer.
She also admitted giving the drug to the teenagers to inhale on multiple occasions, according to a police affidavit.
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