The King County Superior Court sentenced an Auburn woman on Nov. 22 for manslaughter in the 2022 death of her 2-year-old son, resulting from “acute drug intoxication including fentanyl.”

King County prosecutors charged both 33-year-old Angel Melia Vancleave and 32-year-old Daniel Raymond Kruger of Auburn — mother and father of a 2-year-old boy who died on Jan. 3, 2022 — in February 2023.

Both Vancleave and Kruger sustained a charge of domestic violence manslaughter in the first degree.

Vancleave accepted a prosecutorial plea deal on Oct. 30, pleading guilty to a charge of manslaughter in the second degree.

Judge Mark Larranaga sentenced Vancleave to 2 years in confinement at her sentencing hearing on Nov. 22, with an additional 18 months of community custody to follow her sentence.

Kruger’s case continues, with Kruger on electronic home detention as he lives in transitional housing. His trial is scheduled for Jan. 27, 2025, as of a Nov. 19 continuance.

According to prosecutorial documents, after responding to a medical distress call in the 29200 block of 34th Avenue South in Auburn, law enforcement discovered the mother and father’s 2-year-old in a bedroom “littered with drug paraphernalia, including foil and smoking devices and loose blue M30 fentanyl pills.”

According to an affidavit of probable cause, Vancleave said to officers that her son may have gotten ahold of a “fentanyl pill.”

A King County Medical Examiner’s Office autopsy of the 2-year-old found he died as a result of “acute drug intoxication including fentanyl,” and identified his manner of death as “undetermined.”