Plea deal reached for mother charged with her son’s death after he ingested ‘significant amount’ of cocaine
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SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (WRIC) -- A Spotsylvania mother charged in connection to her son's death after he ingested a “significant amount” of cocaine reached a plea deal with prosecutors.
Cinceir Croxton, Jr., or “CJ,” was two years old when he died at the Children's Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in December of 2023. He was flown there from a Spotsylvania motel after he was exposed to a “significant amount” of cocaine, according to authorities.
Cinceir Croxton Jr., or "CJ." He was only two years old at the time of his death. (Photo courtesy of CJ's family.)
Coleman, 22, was charged with second-degree murder, child abuse, child endangerment, possession of drugs with the intent to sell and possession of a firearm while in possession of drugs.
But in a plea agreement reached in Spotsylvania County Circuit Court on Tuesday, April 18, the child endangerment and the possession of a firearm charges were dropped. She was convicted of the other three charges and is scheduled for sentencing on June 30.
Croxton’s father, 24-year-old Cinceir Croxton, Sr., faces the same five charges. He is scheduled for a plea hearing on April 11. If his not-guilty plea remains the same, a one-day trial is scheduled for April 23.
Coleman and Croxton, Sr. were not at the hospital when CJ died. While they did go up to the hospital initially, they reportedly left and returned to the hotel before CJ’s death.
8News spoke to Coleman’s sister, CJ’s aunt, Ja-Hnae Thompson back in August.
“I took care of CJ like he was my own,” she said. “I mean, I will always love my sister, but what she did to my nephew … I don’t think I could ever come back.”
