Pennsylvania woman gets two years for boyfriend’s overdose death

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A Pennsylvania woman who provided her boyfriend with the heroin that led to his overdose death will serve two years in prison.

Kelsey Armeni, 24, of Hillsville, Pa., pleaded guilty Wednesday to corrupting another with drugs and trafficking in heroin for her role in the Jan. 14 overdose death of Tod Childs, 26, of Struthers.

Prosecutors dropped a charge of involuntary manslaughter in exchange for the plea.

Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Armeni to two years in prison with three years’ parole upon release.

The prosecution opposed early judicial release.

Armeni, who said Childs was her boyfriend, apologized to his family for her actions and to her own family for “putting them through hell.”

She hopes to use her experiences to help others battling addiction in the future, she told the court.

“This [opioid epidemic] isn’t going to stop until it gets what it wants,” she said. “And it wants to kill us.”