When Vernice Harris was hanging outwith her friends, she would give her 2-year-old daughter Bryanna doses of methadone “to keep her quiet,” Baltimore police said. Ultimately, those doses proved fatal.

Harris, 30, was charged Dec. 22 with the first-degree murder of her daughter in June ? after a medical examiner?s report showed “a substantial amount” of methadone coupled with blunt force trauma to the abdomen caused the child?s death.