ESPAÑOLA, N.M. (KRQE) — A mother and father are facing child abuse charges after their infant was exposed to fentanyl on Monday, Española Police have confirmed. The department says the child suffered an overdose as a result and now remains in neonatal intensive care.
Officers were dispatched to Española Presbyterian Hospital at about 10:23 p.m. that evening. According to police, the mother and father rushed to the ER after the infant’s condition became “abnormal.”
Police found that both parents regularly used fentanyl in the home. The mother told officers she and her husband were recently charged with child abuse in a similar situation, according to a news release from the police department.
The infant responded positively to Narcan. The father also had to be treated for self-induced overdose symptoms, police say.
The parents are being charged with first-degree abuse of a child resulting in great bodily harm and third-degree abuse of a child. State child protective services were called.