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Daniel Howarth was remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility in lieu of $10 million bail, Bensalem police said on Wednesday, March 23. A warrant was issued for his arrest on Thursday, March 17.
Felicity Westmoreland, the four-month-old baby's mother, and his grandmother, Donna Westmoreland, have also been charged in the case, authorities previously said.
Bensalem police officers responding to a report of an infant in cardiac arrest found the baby unresponsive in the living room of an Oak Avenue home in Trevose around 12:35 p.m. on Jan. 7, police said.
The infant was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in Langhorne where he later died.
An autopsy revealed the presence of fentanyl in the baby's blood and the cause of death was determined to be “adverse effects of fentanyl," police said.
Police found the home in "disarray," with clothes, trash, and old food scattered throughout, they said. Police also discovered "numerous drug baggies, syringes and a tourniquet commonly used for drug injection."
Those items tested positive for the presence of fentanyl and cocaine, police said.
The Bucks County Juvenile Dependency Court had ordered Donna Westmoreland to be the baby's foster mother and to prohibit the infant from being alone with his parents, according to police. She later admitted to detectives that she broke the court order that day.
Felicity Westmoreland and Daniel Howarth were charged with involuntary manslaughter, child endangerment, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Donna Westmoreland was charged with child endangerment.
All were being held in the Bucks County Correctional Facility.
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