A 1-year-old girl from the Bronx was rushed to the hospital on Saturday, Dec. 2, after she ingested an almost fatal dose of heroin left on her father’s bed, police report.
Shortly after midnight on Saturday, her father, 20-year-old Edgardo Rodriguez from York, Pennsylvania, said he was doing heroin on the bed when some of it spilled on the comforter. Both his 1-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son were in the bed with him.
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At about 8 a.m., both Rodriguez and his mother noticed the baby was having trouble breathing. By the time they got her to St. Barnabas Hospital about an hour later, she was unresponsive.
She was given three doses of opiate antidote naloxone and put on a Narcan drip. She was later transferred to Montefiore Medical Center, where she was in critical condition as of Tuesday.
Police found a white powdery substance on the bed in the apartment, court records say, and at the hospital, Rodriguez handed over a bag of what he told police was heroin, Pix11 reported.
He was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, and reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child. He was arrested and held on $5,000 bail, the Daily News reported.
Another Bronx 1-year-old was taken to the hospital just two days later for a similar heroin overdose.
Her parents said they were walking on East 181st St. near Monterey Ave. at a little before midnight on Sunday, Dec. 3, when the 1-year-old picked up a plastic bag and put it in her mouth.
They said they noticed a white substance around her mouth, and a short time later, her face turning a greenish color. Later, she had a seizure.
They rushed her to St. Barnabas where she was given a dose of naloxone.
Like the other 1-year-old, she was transferred to Montefiore, where she remained Tuesday, the Daily News reports.
Both the NYPD and the city Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) were investigating the circumstances, but no arrests were made.
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