Infant, toddler revived with opiate antidote in position they shouldn't have been, cops say

WARREN

Police Capt. Robert Massucci called it a “sad state of affairs” that siblings – a girl, 21 months and a boy, 9 months – had to be revived with naloxone, the opiate-reverseal drug, at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital Tuesday after they apparently ate an opiate.

At a news conference Wednesday, a detective with the Warren Police Department said he expects numerous charges to be filed against individuals involved in the incident.

The mother of the two children, who is 18 and lives on Randolph Street Northwest, is the main suspect in the case, police said. She is the primary caregiver and was at the house when the children became unresponsive, Detective Nick Carney said.

Charges are likely within several days, after toxicology results are received. The results will tell police whether an opiate was involved, Carney said. The children arrived at the hospital at 11:45 a.m. sluggish and unresponsive.

The parents did not tell medical staff what was wrong with the infants, with the mother being highly upset, police said.

“If we had known quicker, we could have found out much quicker” what was wrong, Massucci said.

Carney said evidence in the case, which he would not divulge, indicates criminal conduct occurred. The children were in a position that they shouldn’t have been,” Carney said.

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