Two Dorchester residents are behind bars in lieu of $100,000 bail each after they were indicted Friday on a charge of manslaughter for the death of their five-week-old daughter in January - from fentanyl and cocaine poisoning on top of the malnutrition and bacterial infection she was already suffering - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

According to the DA's office, Raynell Reed, 31, gave birth at home on Dec. 5 - two months earlier than the initial due date, and only some two months after she learned she was pregnant. The father was her partner, Gerard Winn, 52.

During the five weeks of the infant’s life, she failed to gain or maintain weight and was severely malnourished. Despite knowing that their baby was born at least two months premature and observing the newbo

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