Mother, daughter who OD'd together charged with child endangering

Staff report

WARREN

A mother and daughter were arraigned Wednesday on child endangering charges after police say they overdosed on heroin together in a bathroom with a baby in their care.

The women were staying with a friend because they had been evicted from their home in Burghill, police said.

Tammy Foster, 49, and her daughter, Tonya Foster, 19, pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge in Warren Municipal Court.

Tammy is in the Trumbull County Jail in lieu of $2,500 bond, and Tonya is being held there without eligibility to make bond after failing a drug test.

Both women are ordered to have no contact with the child, a boy, 9 months old.

Police responded to the Oak Knoll residence at 2 p.m. March 31 and found the Fosters in the basement bathroom unconscious and with very shallow breathing and turning blue around their lips.

Ambulance personnel gave both women several doses of the opiate reversal drug naloxone and revived them, police said.

The woman who called 911 said that Tonya had her son with her while she was in the bathroom helping her mother with a medical issue. That’s apparently when they decided to snort heroin, police said. The woman said she realized something was wrong when she heard the baby crying and investigated.

She called 911 and also called the baby’s paternal grandparents and uncle, who volunteered to get the baby, police said.