VA Parents Arrested After Their Infant Dies From Fentanyl Overdose
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The Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano says Tillery called for help after she noticed her child wasn’t breathing in June 2022. Fairfax County Police responded to their apartment in Alexandria, where they found the baby girl unresponsive in her crib. After being taken to the hospital, the child later died. The medical examiner’s toxicology report fund high levels of fentanyl in her system. Police think the 11-month-old found a fentanyl pill on the floor of her parent’s apartment and ate it. “Fentanyl pills were haphazardly left in the residence, and the baby ingested one,” Maj. Jeff Reiff of the Fairfax County Police said. “That was the cause of her death.”
The couple has a second child, who has been removed from their custody.
If Fentanyl is kept in the house, health officials recommend keeping any unused Opioid medications out of reach of children. They also suggest calling the Poison Control Hotline (1-800-222-1222) and keeping Narcan nearby as well. Narcan can reverse an opioid overdose in the video below Nurse Robin Harry goes through the steps to administer Narcan.
source: wusa9.com
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