MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – Sheriff’s deputies have arrested the parents of a 2-year-old North Florida girl who died of a fentanyl overdose earlier this year.
The child’s parents remained in the Marion County Jail on Wednesday, each with an aggravated manslaughter charge.
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Marion County Sheriff’s deputies called to the couple’s home on June 13 and found the child unresponsive in her bed.
Her 35-year-old parents told investigators they put her to bed and found her lifeless about 30 minutes later, according to an arrest report.
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She was pronounced dead a short time later at a hospital.
The Marion County medical examiner determined the child died of fentanyl toxicity.
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Sheriff’s officials said the child’s mother was selling fentanyl, and her father was an active user.