'A Horrible Situation': 11-Month-Old Overdoses On Heroin While Parents Slept Inside Car, Police Say
WEST FALLOWFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. (CBS) -- Two Chester County parents are in jail after their 11-month-old son overdosed on heroin while they were asleep inside a car, police say. The three were found Wednesday evening in a car by a family member on Limestone Road in West Fallowfield Township.
Court documents show it was the boy's grandmother who found them passed out in their car and the grandfather who called 911. When EMS arrived at the scene they administered three doses of Narcan to the baby and immediately transported him to A.I. duPont Hospital in Delaware.
The baby and his parents, Charles Salzman and Kristen Bristow, survived.
"That's a sad story," Diane Rouine said. "That's terrible."
Rouine's parents live near where the couple and baby overdosed.
"The danger is you're not only endangering yourself, you're endangering a child as well," Rouine said.
Salzman and Bristow were arrested and charged with aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a child and other related charges.
The boy's grandfather, who is Salzman's father, didn't want to talk on camera with Eyewitness News, but said his son and Bristow started dating in high school. He said they've been addicted to drugs for a while.
"This time they went too far," he told Eyewitness News.
The grandfather added the boy is crawling around at the hospital.
The Chester County District Attorney's Office is now investigating the case.
"This 11-month-old could've died as a result of the parents' actions if it wasn't for the actions of the first responders," First Assistant District Attorney Michael Noone said.
Court documents say police found a bottle cap in the car with heroin on it. The DA says somehow the baby was able to ingest the drug.
Pennsylvania State Police recovered numerous bags of heroin and fentanyl from the car and the house, along with used needles and other paraphernalia.
"This is a horrible situation," Noone said. "This is everyone's worst nightmare."
The parents are still in Chester County Jail. No date for their first court appearance has been set.
