Parents of an 11-month-old girl who court records say accidentally ingested heroin in their central Santa Fe home were formally charged Tuesday with child abuse.
A police report said the girl was rushed to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center when she had difficulty breathing and her face turned purple. Emergency room staff gave the child anti-overdose medication, the report said, and she was later responsive and breathing.
Police spokesman Greg Gurulé said Tuesday the girl was “doing fine” and had been released from the hospital to a guardian.
The parents, Shayann Martinez, 19, and Carlos Griego, 23, were charged Tuesday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court with felony child abuse. Both were released from custody at the Santa Fe County jail late Tuesday, inmate records show, and are due back in court for a preliminary hearing May 29.
Court records say Martinez and Griego admitted to a police detective at the hospital Monday that they both smoke heroin.
Martinez told the detective that a small amount of heroin had fallen out of the foil wrapping and landed on their bed, and that her daughter put it into her mouth, according to court records. Martinez said her daughter immediately began to grimace, and Martinez stuck her finger in the girl’s mouth and removed it, the document says.
The mother attempted resuscitation, and then she and Griego got into a van to drive the girl to the hospital.
A police officer, Daniel Escalon, saw the van at the intersection of Galisteo Street and St. Michael’s Drive, near the hospital. The driver, Griego, was sticking his head out of the vehicle and appeared to be in a panic, the officer said. Martinez then came running over to the police vehicle, carrying her daughter, and Escalon drove them to the emergency room.
After Martinez told Escalon at the hospital that her child had ingested heroin, Escalon went back to his police vehicle, grabbed a dose of Narcan and gave it to hospital staff, who administered it to the child at about 1:45 p.m., according to the report.
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