Ohio Toddler Administered NARCAN After Overdose Parents Arrested

Adams County, Ohio, parents Angel Hesler, 19 and Adam Boling, 21, are charged with child endangerment after their toddler allegedly overdosed on opiates. Responding EMS workers were forced to administer Narcan on the one-year-old.

Sheriff’s deputies arrived on scene after a woman, identifying herself as Angel, called 911 saying her one-year-old son was “coughing, white and not moving.”

911 Dispatch: “Do you think he got into something?”

Caller: “I don’t know. We don’t have nothing here that he could get into anything that drug wise or anything like that.”

At one point, Angel tells dispatch that her son is “throwing up.”

Deputies arrived to find the one-year-old boy “unresponsive.” According to an incident report, officials also found drug paraphernalia at the scene. The Adams County parents were taken into custody.

Upon arrival, deputies discovered that the child had overdosed. Life squad members administered Narcan to the child. Air Care took him to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. As of Thursday afternoon, officials said the boy is doing well. It’s unclear if he is still in the hospital. Medical tests are being administered to determined what the child had made contact with. h/t fox19

Hesler and Boling have not been arraigned.