A mother died of an apparent heroin overdose in front of her seven-month-old daughter while inside the baby’s hospital room. Nearby the girl’s father was found unconscious after he too took the drug while visiting.
The death of Mary Ann Landers has shocked the small town of Trinity, Alabama, where she and her husband where known as doting church-going parents.
Just hours before the 32-year-old died on Wednesday the couple had taken to Facebook to update the progress of their daughter who had undergone surgery.
The mother was later found slumped on the floor at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre and her husband Wesley Landers was discovered unconscious in nearby room.
He was found with a heroin syringe in his arm and revived with Narcan. Another two syringes were nearby on the bathroom counter, documents state.
The death of Mary Ann Landers has shocked the small town of Trinity, Alabama, where she and her husband where known as doting church-going parents.
Just hours before the 32-year-old died on Wednesday the couple had taken to Facebook to update the progress of their daughter who had undergone surgery.
The mother was later found slumped on the floor at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre and her husband Wesley Landers was discovered unconscious in nearby room.
He was found with a heroin syringe in his arm and revived with Narcan. Another two syringes were nearby on the bathroom counter, documents state.
The father has following been captured and confronts charges of ownership of medications, conveying a covered weapon, having weapons while under inability and having drug misuse instruments.
A judge ruled for his bond to be set at $500,000 (£344,000) bond.
"It just demonstrates how solid the grasp is of medications," said Hamilton County Coroner Dr Lakshmi Kode Sammarco.
She included that in simply the most recent two weeks, her office has examined more than 20 overdose related passings.
"There is simply something characteristically amiss with conveying a kid to an extremely specific restorative focus, one of the best on the planet, and afterward committing a truly awful error and losing your own life," Dr. Sammarco included.
The Landers girl had been admitted to the healing center in Cincinnati for a trachea reproduction surgery.
Authorities said the surgery went well, and the infant is recuperating.
Police keep on exploring the occurrence.
"I must say now nothing truly amazes me," said Chief Tom Synan of the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition. "It is stunning where it happened, how it happened. You're in that spot with your kid.
