Sheriff releases 911 call in tot’s second overdose
Tape shows woman more concerned about man who took her car.
NORTH PALM BEACH — Asa 19-month-old overdosed on opioids this month, the toddler’s caregiver called 911 for another no-contact order against a man who she said took off in her car.
Jeanette Homan, 43, spoke to a dispatcher for more than a minute Jan. 11 before she explained that the toddler had ingested the narcotic pain-reliever buprenorphine.
“I don’t know how much she got but she’s, like, nodding out and stuff, so apparently she got some of it,” the North Palm Beacharea woman told the dispatcher. It was the toddler’s second overdose in three months, records show. Rescue crews needed multiple doses of Narcan to revive the child, sheriff ’s records state.
Homan was arrested later that day on multiple child-neglect and perjury charges after Palm Beach County sheriff ’s authorities say she lied to 911 dispatchers
about how the little girl accessed the powerful opioid. As of Tuesday, she remained in the Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of a $51,000 bail.
In the recently released 911 call, dispatchers can be heard repeatedly steering the conversation away from Homan’s tumultuous relationship with the man back to the little girl. At one point, Homan interrupted a poison-control official to stress that the man had taken her car. A Fire Rescue dispatcher interjected: “Listen to him. Listen to him. Everything else isn’t important right now.”
The poison control official explained that the narcotic could have long-lasting effects that may
not have surfaced in the 20 minutes since the toddler ingested the pill. The child needed to go to an emergency room immediately.
Meanwhile, another young child was heard in the background. “I’m trying to wake her up,” the child said, referencing the dozing girl. She was rushed to Jupiter Medical Center, then moved to St. Mary’s Medical Center’s neonatal-intensive care unit in West Beach Beach.
Homan told dispatchers that the man — whom The Post is not naming because he has not been charged in the incident — threw her pain medication that evening, causing it to spill, and took off in her car. She thought she had cleaned up all of the pills, but later noticed about half of one broken on the ground.
When sheriff ’s authorities spoke to Homan at a hospital, she changed her story, admitting she may have dropped a pill or two. The man, who Homan claimed was addicted to drugs, hadn’t spilled the pills, she said.
Court records indicate Homan previously had a no-contact order against the man, but it was not in place when he reportedly came to her North Palm Beach-area home. His criminal record includes drug-, burglary- and stalking-related offenses, though few of the charges against him have stuck.
According to Jupiter Medical’s staff, the child also overdosed in October after ingesting two 1-milligram clonazepam pills, a sedative used to treat seizures and panic disorders.
That time, Homan told the hospital staff she had dropped the pills in the middle of the night. The toddler swallowed the pills at about 8 a.m., but wasn’t taken to a hospital until about 11 a.m. after Homan noticed the child couldn’t walk.