Alexander Aiken, 13, died of drug overdose; 14-year-old Wisconsin girl faces adult charges
Thirteen-year-old Alexander Aiken died of a drug overdose on Feb. 9. The kid, who lived in Milton, Wis., evidently took a lethal dose of oxycodone that a 14-year-old girl gave him after stealing the pills from her grandmother's purse. 
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That's tragedy enough, but there's also this: The girl had been tossed out of Edgerton Middle School -- the same school Alexander attended -- in 2009 after she brought 27 half tablets of oxycodone to school.
Now we learn that the Rock County District Attorney has been given the OK by a judge to try the girl as an adult. The precise charges haven't been discolsed, but she's being held at the county's juvenile detention center ahead of a Thursday hearing when more details are expected.
A second 13-year-old boy, described by the Janesville Gazette as the girl's boyfriend, also took some of the drug the night that Alexander died. He was hospitalized and later charged with possession of prescription medication.
Authorities want to release the boy into his mother's care; she wants him locked up for the time being so he can meditate on his predicament.
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