NEWPORT, Tenn. - A woman was convicted of killing her 4-month-old son by giving him a pacifier she had rolled in crushed OxyContin pills.

According to the statement Debra Elaine Kirk Moore gave police, she and her husband had crushed OxyContin tablets and taken the drug before lying down with the baby. The boy, Lacy Moore III, soon awoke and would not go back to sleep.

Moore "took his pacifier into the bathroom where the OxyContin had been crushed. There were crumbs and dust, and I stuck the wet pacifier into the dust and crumbs and put it back into the baby's mouth," according to her statement to police.

When they awoke the next morning, the baby wasn't breathing. He died two days later, on July 22, 2002. Authorities said the baby's father was preparing a bottle of milk and didn't know what his wife had done.

Moore, 23, was convicted Wednesday of criminally negligent homicide and aggravated child abuse. The homicide conviction carries a sentence of one to two years, and the child abuse term is 15 to 25 years. Sentencing was set for Feb. 23.

OxyContin, a brand name for the narcotic medication oxycodone, is prescribed for time-released pain relief. Drug abusers can obtain a heroin-like high by crushing the pills before taking them.

The jury was not told that Debra Moore lost another child just four months before her son's death. Her 2-year-old daughter, Adrianna Faye Moore, died in a swimming pool in March 2002.