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Foster mom charged in child's death from pain patch

May 20, 2008

A Harlem woman has been charged in the death of her 6-year-old foster daughter because she used a controversial painkiller to try to cure the girl's headache and neck pains, police said Monday.

On Saturday night, Taylor Webster told her foster mother, Joanne Alvarez, 54, that her head and neck hurt. Alvarez gave the child Motrin and placed on Taylor's neck a Fentanyl Transdermal...

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