Following her guilty plea, a mother from Fremont could spend just under five more months in jail for the death of her baby son, who overdosed on fentanyl last year while the mother was passed out from the strong drug.
Sophia Gastelum-Vera, 27, cried as she apologized for her part in the overdose death of 23-month-old Kristofer Ferreyra on Monday. Ferreyra’s death in October 2023 added to the growing number of young deaths linked to the synthetic drug.
She also promised to keep going to rehab and treatment for an addiction that had taken over her life and kept her away from Kristofer’s three remaining brothers…