An opiate-addicted 20-year-old Lehighton mother faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of children in the death of her 6-week-old son, Brayden Allen Cummings, who, like his mother, was on methadone.

Tory Lyn Schlier, of 228 N. Seventh St., who also had methamphetamine and other drugs in her system when the baby died on Oct. 17, told troopers she was high when she gave Brayden his dose of methadone at 10 p.m. the night before.State police trooper Nicolas De La Iglesia on Tuesday charged Schlier, who is in Carbon County Correctional Facility under $100,000 cash bail.A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1:10 p.m. Jan. 7.According to an affidavit of probable cause filed with District Judge Edward Lewis of Jim Thorpe, Lehighton police were called to the house at 8:58 a.m. that day about an unresponsive infant.Schlier told them, in a statement that was recorded after she was given her Miranda rights, she had fed Brayden a bottle in her bed between 7:30 and 8 a.m., and then fell asleep with him still in the bed.She said she was awakened by her fiance's mother at 9 a.m. and found the baby unresponsive.Brayden was taken to Gnaden Huetten Memorial Hospital in Lehighton, where a doctor pronounced him dead at 9:15 a.m.Schlier told police she is addicted to opiates and was taking methadone at the time the baby died. Brayden was also prescribed methadone, and Schlier had given him a dose at 10 o'clock the night before. Schlier said she had not taken any other medications or alcohol.A blood sample from Schlier revealed amphetamine, methamphetamine, alprazolam (an anti-anxiety drug) and methadone.On Nov. 5, Schlier contacted state police via the Carbon County prison warden, where she was detained on a probation violation.She agreed to a second recorded interview and admitted to having taken two bars of Xanax (alprazolam) that she had not been prescribed in the afternoon of Oct. 16.That's when Schlier told troopers she was high when she gave Brayden his dose of methadone.She also admitted taking the methamphetamine, but couldn't recall when.She admitted to having been "fuzzy" the morning of Oct. 17, when she brought Brayden into her bed to give him his bottle.She fell asleep holding him alongside her body.An autopsy performed on Oct. 18 by forensic pathologist Michael Johnson determined that Brayden, one month and 12 days old, died from asphyxia (overlay while co-sleeping), and that he was a victim of homicide.Brayden was also the son of David V. Cummings.