Winnipeg infant died of fentanyl intoxication, parents charged with manslaughter: police

The parents of a one-year-old girl who died in March of last year have been arrested and charged with manslaughter. Police said Monday the autopsy and toxicology reports revealed that the infant, Hanna Boulette, died of high levels of fentanyl intoxication. According to police, the girl’s father, 38-year-old Garry Daniel Adrian Bruce, initially called 911 on Mar. 23, 2023, as Hanna was unresponsive.

Police said there was a small amount of fentanyl found in Bruce’s possession at the scene, and he and the child’s mother — 37-year-old Sabrina Faye Boulette — were charged with criminal negligence causing death.

Through the course of the investigation, police said they learned that the parents had omitted details when speaking to police, and had been aware of Hanna’s fentanyl exposure before calling 911. “The amount of time that had passed from when the parents were aware of the child’s fentanyl exposure to when 911 was called was certainly a factor that may have played in the child’s death,” Const. Claude Chancy said.

“Very recently, I believe it was at the beginning of January, we had a child ingestion of fentanyl incident. In that particular case, again, it was in the household, and that child was a two-year-old male,” Chancy added, saying there were comparable circumstances in which a child ingested fentanyl that was readily accessible.

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