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Cops: Photos of Boy With Passed-Out Adults Show Drug Scourge
By: Associated Press
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EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio police department says it’s trying to show the impact of the heroin and painkiller epidemic by sharing photos of a 4-year-old boy sitting in a vehicle behind slumped-over adults who were later revived with an overdose antidote.
East Liverpool police say in a Facebook message they’re sorry if people are offended but they want the public to see what happens and they want to be a voice for the boy who witnessed the scene.
Police say an officer watched the vehicle weave erratically and stop, then approached and noticed signs the driver was impaired. The officer says the driver indicated he was taking his unconscious female passenger to a hospital, then became unresponsive himself.
The officer called paramedics, who revived the pair.
They face child-endangering and other charges.