Pickaway County Grand Jury Indicts Mother in Toddler's Fentanyl Death

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CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio. A Pickaway County grand jury has indicted Brittany M. Stroud, 30, of Orient, on charges of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of endangering children in the Oct. 13 death of her 17-month-old daughter, according to Pickaway County Common Pleas Court records.

The indictment was filed Nov. 5 in case 2026CR0186. It charges involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony, and endangering children, a second-degree felony and a third-degree felony. All three counts carry an offense date of Oct. 13, 2026.

Stroud is scheduled to be arraigned on the indictment at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, before Judge Matthew H. Chafin. No bond has been set in the Common Pleas case.

Her three companion cases in Circleville Municipal Court were dismissed without prejudice Nov. 6. The indictment does not carry the municipal cases’ separate drug-possession charge as its own count.

Stroud was arrested Oct. 27 in Columbus on the outstanding warrant and taken to the Pickaway County Jail. The Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office has said an autopsy found a fatal amount of fentanyl in the child.

Her mother, Tammy Stroud, turned herself in to the sheriff’s office Oct. 18 and was given a $250,000 bond in Circleville Municipal Court.

We are reaching out for more information and will update this story as details become available.

All charges are allegations. Stroud is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.

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