By Erik Sandoval, iReporter and Digital Content Director
POSTED: 3:38 pm PDT August 20, 2010UPDATED: 4:56 pm PDT August 28, 2010
Riverside County Sheriff's Dept.
Suzanne Mowery
INDIO -- A Riverside County judge agreed with defense attorneys on Friday and released a 44-year-old Desert Hot Springs woman.Suzanne Mowery faces three counts of child abuse stemming from allegations she helped a teenager buy heroin on July 4 and smoked it with her.The next morning, 16-year-old Megan Escalante was found dead.Police had reported the teen took a methadone pill before going to bed that night.She was found in a home on the 2900 block of Escoba Road in Desert Hot Springs.Mowery was arrested two weeks after Escalante's death, and admitted to police she was a recovering drug addict who had recently relapsed. She also admitted that she and Escalante often took drugs together.As a condition of the release, the Riverside County judge ordered her to a rehabilitation facility, and also ordered her not to have contact with any of the victim's family.
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