Dad pleads guilty to murder for mixing drugs in child's drink (Charlestown, Pennsylvania)

Dad IAN KOHN has pleaded guilty to 3rd-degree murder charges in the death of his 23-month-old son. Seems Daddy mixed methadone and Ambien with Gatorade, and put it in the child's bottle. Sick stuff. And don't tell me he just wanted to help the child sleep. That's ridiculous. Not a word here on the mother.

http://www.pottstownmercury.com/articles/2010/05/10/blotter/doc4be845274a1fc911764019.txt

Father pleads guilty to murder for mixing drugs in child's drink
Published: Monday, May 10, 2010

By Michael P. Rellahan Special to The Mercury

WEST CHESTER – The Charlestown man who police said killed his 23-month-old son by mixing drugs in his baby bottle and feeding them to him with Gatorade pleaded guilty to third-degree murder charges Monday.

Ian Kohn, 29, was sentenced to a total of 20-to-40 years in state prison as part of a plea agreement between the prosecution and Kohn’s attorney.

Kohn’s son, Joseph Clayton Kohn, was pronounced dead at Paoli Hospital on March 17, 2009. An autopsy determined that he had extremely high levels of methadone and Ambien in his system at the time. Kohn later confessed to police he had been feeding the child those drugs to help him sleep.

Kohn asked forgiveness for his crime before sentencing by Judge Thomas Gavin.

“Joey was such and incredible little boy,” he said, reading from a statement he wrote beforehand. “I never thought death could happen to my little beautiful baby boy.”