Overview

• A Lubbock County jury found Adam Canales Jr. guilty on Aug. 28, and he awaits sentencing that could carry up to 20 years in prison.
• The baby, Athena Brigida-Kay Canales, was found unresponsive on July 11, 2021, and an autopsy determined she died of mixed drug toxicity.
• District Attorney Sunshine Stanek argued he dosed the infant with a sedating over-the-counter medicine to enable private time and described a pattern of medicating children to induce sleep.
• Defense attorney Kristopher Mincey maintained the death was accidental, citing miscommunication about overlapping doses in a busy six-child household.
• Canales initially denied administering Benadryl but later admitted it after the autopsy findings, and the child’s mother, Sarah Canales, remains charged with manslaughter and awaits trial.