Officer comforts 1-year-old after parents overdose on heroin in car

[Sugar Cookie]

Fayetteville police rescued a 1-year-old boy whose parents had overdosed on heroin Friday morning.

Police were called to the Westwood Shopping Center parking lot after someone noticed a car with two people inside slumped over, unconscious. Also in the car was a 1-year-old boy.

Officer Michael Sheeley scooped up the child and held him until his grandparent arrived. A photo posted by the police department generated hundreds of thousands of likes, comments and shares.

The boy's parents Joshua Wright, 28, and Alicia Kowszik, 26, from Fayetteville were arrested and charged with possession of heroin and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Security video shows the car arrived at 10:50 the night before and had stayed there until a passerby called 911 more than eight hours later.

Glass said children are too often the innocent victims of drug abuse.

"We've had children running down the street in diapers, their parents or caregivers have overdosed," he said.

Fayetteville police save abandoned 1-year-old after parents overdose :: WRAL.com

Fayetteville police rescued a 1-year-old boy whose parents had overdosed on heroin Friday morning.

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[62julietandvoid]

That photo...

 

[BuffettGirl]

Bubs!

 

[Rosa178]

So sad. I can’t imagine how scary it is for kids to be raised by drug addicts of any kind.

 

[Gawker]

Mom looks like she’s having a terrific day! Not a damn care in the world.Good for her! Dad looks like he got hit on the he head with an anvil from ACME Loony Toons style. Dummy.

 

[Anosmia]

So sad. I can’t imagine how scary it is for kids to be raised by drug addicts of any kind.

Right? It must be so destabilizing. Even if the parents somehow manage to do a decent job of making sure the kids are changed, fed, clothed, etc, there is still likely a lack of routine and a whole lotta uncertainty, with the kid never really knowing what parent s/he will be getting from hour to hour. The stumbling incoherent one? The passed out one? The angry, needing-a-fix one? The loving one?

 

[Satanica]

Right? It must be so destabilizing. Even if the parents somehow manage to do a decent job of making sure the kids are changed, fed, clothed, etc, there is still likely a lack of routine and a whole lotta uncertainty, with the kid never really knowing what parent s/he will be getting from hour to hour. The stumbling incoherent one? The passed out one? The angry, needing-a-fix one? The loving one?

It would be something like dealing with an alcoholic parent with even more uncertainty.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

It depends on their addiction and how well they control it .. my children were unaware of my addiction because it wasn't something I wanted for my children.. they had schedules, top of their classes and a mother who loved them an spoiled the shit out of them .. I became like my father a functional addict that never missed life events and never called in sick - the bills were paid a month ahead.. you would never know that either of us had a problem.. I chose not to get to that point.. others choose not to get to that point.. full blown addicts that don't care about themselves and certainly not others do act like what you are talking about but before you lump everyone in one category.. it's grey.. not black and white..

 

[Alxprkrkrls]

Ugh they’re lucky he didn’t die!! I saw a story on here a while back about a baby who starved to death when her parents OD’d and died and it literally haunts me.