Honey Brook mom accused of injecting daughter with heroin
WEST CALN >> A West Caln woman and her boyfriend have been accused by authorities of supplying her 14-year-old daughter and another teenager with heroin and helping them get high, the woman at times injecting both of the teens with the drug.
Jessica Lynn Riffey, of Telegraph Road, Honey Brook was arrested on Thursday and charged with felony endangering the welfare of children, as well as corruption of minors, recklessly endangering another person, and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, all misdemeanors.
Riffey whose daughter told investigators that her mother had used the drawstring from a hooded sweatshirt to make her veins pop out so as to better inject the heroin with a syringe that was supplied by her mothers boyfriend, Jameson C. Burn is currently being held on $50,000 cash bail in Chester County Prison awaiting a preliminary hearing.
Burn, a Berks County man with a long criminal history that involved substance abuse, has not yet been taken into custody and arrested, although police have issued a warrant for his arrest on drug delivery charges. He was supposed to have surrendered at District Court in Honey Brook Monday afternoon, but failed to appear. He is listed as a fugitive.
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