Couple to Stand Trial in Baby Overdose Death

A man and woman have been ordered to stand trial in the drug death of a 9-month-old Philadelphia boy almost a year ago.

Twenty-four-year-old Oscar Sanchez-Rivera and 27-year-old Viameri Santana-Berrios are charged with murder, conspiracy and other counts in the July 26 death of Milton Galarza-Rojas.

The Philadelphia Inquirer says defense attorneys strenuously contested the charges during Tuesday's preliminary hearing.

Sanchez-Rivera's attorney said it made no sense for him to inject and kill a child that he and his girlfriend were only watching for her cousin.

Santana-Berrios' lawyer said that neither autopsy nor witnesses could show that his client injected drugs into the baby.

Prosecutors, however, cited a medical examiner's testimony that the heroin and cocaine had to have been ingested or injected within six hours of death.