Tragic Death: Lily Iorio, 2 Year old drugged to death by Peabody Cruel Mother, What Happened? Explained

Vanessa Jeising, 28, was charged with permitting substantial injuries to a child and reckless endangerment of a child. She pleaded not guilty at her arraignment in Peabody District Court Friday.

Jeising’s daughter, Lily Lorio, died on Jan. 18 in an incident that started in Peabody. Prosecutors say Jeising called a friend and said Lily was unresponsive in the car. That friend told Jeising to take her to the hospital and called Peabody Police, who escorted Jeising to the hospital.

Jeising took Lily to the emergency room at Lahey Medical Center, but they were unable to revive Lily. Investigators later found illegal drugs in the car, prosecutors say.

Asked if she had any drugs in the car, she told officers there might have been some “powder,” which she said she kept in her bra or wallet, out of reach of her daughter, according to McCarthy’s report. She also said her daughter had fallen asleep after dinner and when she tried to wake her around 11 p.m., Lily Iorio was “limp” but still breathing. She said she called her friend, who told her to take the child to Lahey.

It would be more than two hours before the child arrived at the hospital, investigators wrote. Jeising also admitted she “may have” thrown drugs out of her car near Shaw’s supermarket near the hospital. But as Jeising waited in the police station on the morning of the 18th, an outreach coordinator from the Healthy Peabody Collaborative spotted her and asked what happened, according to the affidavit.

Jeising told the coordinator the child “died in (her) arms,” and that Jeising whispered, “she got into … something,” according to the affidavit.

The friend who called 911 told police that Jeising had sent her a Facebook message shortly after midnight on the 18th asking if she had any Narcan. The friend told police that “her daughter got into her product,” and she was afraid of getting arrested and losing custody of the girl. The friend and another woman drove to the McDonald’s on Route 114 in Danvers, where Jeising was parked and saw that the child was not breathing, had purple lips, and was cold.

The other friend then said she’d seen Jeising earlier in the day and that Jesing was worried because she saw fentanyl on the girl’s blanket. The friends followed Jeising toward Lahey Hospital. One friend said she saw her stop near Shaw’s, get out, and throw away a bag. That’s when the friend called 911.

Following the interview, Jeising was committed by a judge to Beverly Hospital for substance abuse treatment. She was arrested following her release. Magoon said outside court that she had been trying to get her daughter help for substance abuse since her teenage years, and first had her daughter committed for treatment when she was 18.

She said her daughter Lily Iorio struggles with substance abuse had led to prior involvement by DCF, who, she says, should have listened to her. “It’s not fair that everything is falling on my daughter,” Magoon said. “Everyone else walked away and left her alone with that baby.” She’s also angry with Lily’s father, who had left Jeising to care for the child.