ST. LOUIS—A man has been charged with child endangerment after his 14-month-old son arrived unresponsive at a hospital with fentanyl and cocaine in his system and was resuscitated with a treatment used after drug overdoses.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 38-year-old Gayron Sloan was charged Tuesday with endangering the welfare of a child.
Father charged after 14-month-old son goes to hospital with fentanyl and cocaine in system https://t.co/UrNqgzdiZQ pic.twitter.com/mNBI0sCKJx
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch (@stltoday) January 17, 2019
Court records say the boy was resuscitated after staffers at his day care took him to a hospital. He was revived with the help of Narcan, a treatment that combats opioids.
According to charging documents, Sloan told investigators he sells fentanyl and cocaine and stores the drugs at his home.
Investigators: Toddler had fentanyl, cocaine in system https://t.co/CCvpeWKWiw pic.twitter.com/wEOahBBrOa
— FOX2now (@FOX2now) January 17, 2019
Authorities did not name the day care where the child became ill.
Online court records do not name an attorney for Sloan.
