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Saturday, August 15, 2009
doctor is father to baby fed morphine-spiked breast milk
HILLSBORO, Ore. -- Investigators revealed Friday that the father to an infant fed breast milk spiked with morphine by a 25-year-old Aloha woman was, in fact, a doctor himself.
Dr. Wallace Lai is a board-certified cardiologist who completed his residency in internal medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, according to the hospital's website.
Dr. Lai specializes in studying the electrical activity in the heart, according to OHSU, and works at the Tuality Healthcare facility in Hillsboro. He also is an assistant professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at OHSU.
Dr. Lai, a 43-year-old resident of Southwest Portland, did not return repeated phone calls from KGW, and a physician's answering service said he was off for the weekend.
The mother of Lai's child, who described herself as "his girlfriend," Dillard-Lubin was out of prison on probation for a 2005 conviction on child cruelty charges in Los Angeles County, Calif. when she was arrested on assault charges in Washington County.
In that case, she had poisoned her 10-month-old son with morphine. Custody of the boy was transferred to his father, a man other than Dr. Lai, according to investigators.
Dillard-Lubin later had her probation transferred to Oregon, where she was able to find work as a medical assistant at Oregon Pediatrics, though she has minimal medical training and is not a licensed nurse, investigators said.
Police were first alerted to the Oregon child's poisoning sometime in June.
According to Sheriff's Office Sgt. Thompson, Dillard-Lubin took her 2-month-old daughter to St. Vincent's Hospital on June 3, claiming the infant had a high fever in an attempt to lure Dr. Lai to meet with her.
Dr. Lai did not meet Dillard-Lubin at the hospital, though doctors still admitted the little girl for "observation."
The next morning, a nurse found the child barely breathing. Investigators believe Dillard-Lubin spiked her breast milk with a high dose of morphine and fed it to her daughter.
"At this point detectives are speculating that she was trying to get his attention because he didn't have any interest in caring for the child," Thompson said.
The baby survived, but her condition puzzled doctors until toxicology tests came back positive for opiates.
Dillard-Lubin told the hospital that she was on a pain killer and the opiates must have come through her breast milk.
When she brought in a sample for them to test, they found high levels of morphine, indicating the drug had been added to the milk after pumping.
The hospital alerted the state Department of Human Services, Child Protective Services and county investigators.
The infant was taken from Dillard-Lubin and placed in state custody.
Dillard-Lubin made her first court appearance on Aug. 13, facing several charges stemming from the assault on her child.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Judge Who Deflated Tire Resigns
A Charles County Maryland judge who acknowledged deflating a tire on a car parked near the courthouse in La Plata submitted a letter Thursday resigning as chief administrator of the Circuit Court.
"I am at a stage of my career where I feel that I can be of more use to the judiciary as a judge in the trenches than as someone with budget, planning, personnel and other management responsibilities," Circuit Court Judge Robert C. Nalley wrote to Robert M. Bell, chief judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals.
Nalley made no reference in the letter to this week's controversy over the tire deflation. He admitted to his supervisor and a Southern Maryland newspaper that he let the air out of the rear right tire of a 2004 Toyota Corolla parked outside the courthouse Monday.
Reached in his chamber Thursday, Nalley said, "Thank you, sir. I really don't have anything to say." Nalley, 65, is not resigning from the bench.
La Plata Police Chief Cassin B. Gittings said Thursday that an investigation into the tire deflation was continuing. Two county sheriff's jail officers witnessed the incident, and one recorded it with his cellphone camera, said two sources familiar with the investigation who requested anonymity because the probe is ongoing.
Bell could not be reached Thursday. William D. Missouri, chief administrative judge of Maryland's 7th Circuit, which includes Charles, said Nalley's resignation from his post as chief administrative judge won't be effective until Bell accepts it. "I suspect [Bell] will accept the resignation and make it effective immediately," Missouri said.
As chief administrative judge, Nalley was responsible for assigning cases to judges and overseeing the Circuit Court's budget and personnel, and he largely decided which defendants were entitled to continuances on court dates.
"The county administrative judge runs the court," Missouri said.
The owner of the car, Jean Washington, 51, said that a Charles sheriff's deputy told her Monday that Nalley was deflating her tire. Washington rushed out and moved her car to another parking area, where another deputy told her that the rear right tire was flat.
Washington said she did not have a permit for the first parking spot.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Missing Cucumbers Has Aussie Cops Stumped
A spate of cucumber thefts has Adelaide police in a pickle.
More than $10,000 worth of cucumbers have been stolen in 11 separate robberies in the past three months.
Thieves have targeted market gardens north of Adelaide, with police saying the latest robbery - of 50 bags of cucumbers - was reported from a glasshouse at Virginia at the weekend.
"The issue with the cucumber is how do you and I tell who owns a different cucumber?," SA Police Chief Inspector Kym Zander told ABC Radio on Wednesday.
"We're having difficulty establishing where they (the cucumbers) are going."
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