Social Services were unaware of a dad's £100-a-week cannabis use and saw him as the "capable parent" to baby Hunter White who fell down the side of a settee and died. Nottingham Crown Court heard the tragic background surrounding the death of 18-day-old Hunter who was in the care of dad, Adam White, who smoked cannabis every day.
A seven-day-a-week working plumber, who was in demand during lockdown, Adam White fell asleep on the sofa and Hunter was facedown and unable to breathe. Despite a social worker visiting the day before Hunter's death and describing him as seeming, "happy, healthy and properly looked after", the same social worker knew about the extent of mum Terri Walters's drug use, the court heard.
Walters, 32, of Kingsway Gardens, Hucknall, had even admitted using drugs on various occasions during her pregnancy. The former couple, both parents to Hunter who was born on June 26, 2020, and died on July 10, 2020, were "habitual drug users", said Luke Blackburn, prosecuting, on Monday, May 23.
