Police report says 3-year-old ingested cocaine

YOUNGSTOWN — A 3-year-old Idora Avenue girl taken to Akron Children’s Hospital Boardman facility on Market Street late Wednesday night had ingested cocaine, police said. The girl’s mother, interviewed around 10:30 p.m. at the hospital, said she had been asleep and when she woke she saw her daughter running around, more active than normal. The child told police she didn’t remember eating anything. The little girl had also ingested a penny, reports show. The mother said she does not do drugs and suggested that maybe the girl’s father had come over and “dropped the cocaine,” reports show. Police who checked court records discovered that the mother had been convicted of drug abuse marijuana last year. The case has been assigned to the juvenile division and Mahoning County Children’s Services Bureau.