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Women Inmates Concerned For Kids
By newsok.com
Published: 01/31/2011

She doesn’t remember Jeffrey’s funeral.

But Laura Taff knows that’s when it all started — the booze, the pills, the drugs, anything she felt would sedate her.

All of it was self-medication. Taff wanted the pain and guilt to go away.

She wanted to forget that moment she couldn’t keep from remembering — the moment when she found her 4-month-old boy next to her in bed, stiff, cold and dead.

Taff’s son Jeffrey died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. She was 19.

Taff, who had one other son at the time of Jeffrey’s death, went on to have five more sons. She also went on to drink heavily and abuse prescription drugs and eventually methamphetamine. Taff has drug convictions in Oklahoma County dating to 2000 and had entered Drug Court in 2001. After a drug-related arrest, she was revoked from the program in 2004.

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