Stacie Renee Dutaillis faces court for giving kids drugs night of manslaughter

A woman jailed for manslaughter faced court again for giving kids drugs, one of whom called the ambulance the night a 15 year old fatally overdosed.

A woman jailed for manslaughter faced court one last time for giving two other kids drugs, one of whom called the ambulance the night a 15 year old fatally overdosed.

A woman jailed for manslaughter faced court again for giving two other kids opioids, one of whom called the ambulance the night a 15 year old fatally overdosed.

Stacie Renee Dutaillis was sentenced in Rockhampton Supreme Court to seven years in prison after her prescription tramadol pills caused the death of Jerome Banu.

She faced Mackay Magistrates Court on Monday for supplying two other teens with restricted medicine.

Stacie Renee Dutaillis (left) and Jerome Banu (right).

Both of the teenagers were girls, with one having been the person who called emergency services after Jerome was discovered not breathing in his bed.

On the night of September 29, 2021, the then 36-year-old was caring for seven children in her North Mackay home on Malcolm St.

Justice Graeme Crow said she had given six of them one pill, telling them the drugs were “speed based” and would “make them high” before going to bed.

Rockhampton Supreme Court heard the teenagers had then had a competition as to who could take the most pills.

Jerome was estimated to have consumed 18 to 20 and began vomiting a “chunky red substance”, including blood, and having seizures at about 1am.

Jerome Banu was 15 when he died of an alleged tramadol overdose at a North Mackay home in September last year, an incident that left five of his friends in hospital. Picture: Facebook

Mackay prosecutor Leonie Taufa’ao said one of the girls had taken two pills and the other had taken five.

“There were at least three boxes of tramadol,” Ms Taufa’ao said, with the Supreme Court hearing police had photographed five.

“At approximately 10.22am, Thursday the 30th of September, 2021, QAS was called ... to attend the address.”

Magistrate Bronwyn Hartigan asked if they were still alive, which Ms Taufa’ao confirmed.

Defence lawyer Matthew Scott said Dutaillis was born in Mackay and had undergone a serious surgery making her custody “more difficult”.

Jerome Banu's mum Samantha Jones, sister Kaniqua Miskin and grandmother Dana Zivkov outside Rockhampton Courthouse on December 21, 2023. Picture: Aden Stokes

Mr Scott said her sentence should be to convict and not further punish in light of her recent jail sentence.

The fine-only charges were not transmittable to Supreme Court but, had they been, Ms Hartigan agreed Dutaillis “wouldn’t have received further penalty”.

“If you received anything it would be a fine but that is, in my view, not within range,” Ms Hartigan said.

“As you are going to be in custody for a significant period of time still … there is no point in fining you.

“I understand now that is the end of all your matters before the court.”

Dutaillis’ parole eligibility date is set at August 26, 2024, after 603 days pre-sentence custody deemed as time served; a sentence Jerome’s mother Samantha Jones said was “no kind of justice”.

Dutaillis had convictions recorded and was not further punished.