Now, her teenage son is dead and she's going to prison.
While Andrew Frye lay dying on the floor of a Super 8 motel room in Green, Ohio, in April, a party raged around him.
The attendees - high from a mixture of heroin and fentanyl - weren't other teenagers but the 16-year-old's mother and grandmother, police said.
Prosecutors would later say the very people who should have protected the teenager from the dangers of drug use were the ones who walked him to a ledge and "enabled" him to jump.
"We have evidence of drug abuse by more than one person, more than one relative of the deceased," Summit County Sheriff Steve Barry told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in April. "It appears his mother, her friend and his grandmother, and a friend of the grandmother, all had a hand in obtaining and disseminating heroin among themselves.
"The evidence in this case turns my stomach," Barry said.
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