A jury found a Douglas County woman guilty Friday in the 2022 death of her son from a fentanyl overdose.

Hanna Gilmour, 29, was convicted of felony child abuse resulting in death and misdemeanor child abuse for the death of her 22-month-old son, Layton, in November of 2022, according to a news release from the 23rd Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Investigators discovered that the apartment shared by Hanna and her boyfriend — Jacob Birkbeck, who was also the child’s father — was full of illegal substances, including cocaine and fentanyl, according to the release. Prosecutors alleged that Layton crawled onto the floor and accidentally ingested some of the fentanyl, which eventually led to his death.

“This was a senseless and preventable tragedy,” said 23rd Judicial District Chief

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