Posted on 10/05/2016 5:45:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
A 7-year-old girl in McKeesport, Pennsylvania got on the bus and went to school as normal Monday morning, but on the way home she told her bus driver she hadn’t been able to wake her parents. The bus driver alerted police who responded to the home. From the Washington Post:
Inside the home, authorities found the bodies of Christopher Dilly, 26, and Jessica Lally, 25, dead of suspected drug overdoses, according to police.
Also inside the home were three other children — 5, 3 and nine months old.
Courney Lally, the deceased woman’s sister, had tried to alert authorities to the problem for months, sending police photos from inside the couple’s trash-strewn home and begging authorities to give her custody of the couple’s four children. That had only angered Jessica Lally who moved her family to a new house a few months ago.
This local news report tells the story:
There were 422 drug overdose deaths in Allegheny County (which includes Pittsburgh) in 2015. In fact, police responded to a similar situation on the same block within a day of discovering the 7-year-old’s parents. That’s part of a massive rise in opioid deaths nationwide:
Nationwide, opioids such as heroin and prescription pain relievers killed more than 28,000 people in 2014, more than any year on record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least half of all opioid overdose deaths involved a prescription drug, the CDC said, adding that the number of overdose deaths involving opioids has nearly quadrupled nationwide since 1999.
Incidents like this of parents overdosing in front of small children have made the news several times recently. Last month video was published on You Tube showing a toddler trying to rouse her mother, Mandy McGowen, who had collapsed from a drug overdose in the middle of a Family Dollar store in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Fortunately, McGowen survived but her 2-year-old was taken from her by Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.
I’ve seen about as many folks whining on FR when Family Services acts as I have whining when Family Services doesn’t act.
Underpaid, overworked employees who have half the folks sniping at them no matter what they do or don’t do, having to go places that I wouldn’t go with a bullet proof vest and an armed guard.
Fortunately, most start out as misguided liberal fools, so they can get some work in before they burn out.
Yup. Legal with known dosage might prevent these ODs.
His pupils look normal, but hers are such pinpoints, they are almost impossible to see. So I’d suspect her before I’d suspect him of anything more than recreational activities.
The drugs become a way to hide from the ugliness of their lives. 4 children abandoned .. it’s heartbreaking.
The vast majority of heroin consumed in this country comes from Mexico/South America.
It’s so sad to read this - we had a high schooler at my school several years ago that was heavily addicted to oxycontin when it was still readily available. His father died of an overdose and he completely dropped out of the scene and moved to Maine and rehabbed. Now he’s looking to get into law enforcement to apprehend people who sell this crap.
All the painkiller addicts have shifted straight to the cheaper heroin after vicodin and oxycontin got hard to obtain. A lot of dead 20 somethings in our community, something I haven’t seen since the 90’s. Heroin’s never been this cheap.
I’ll take all four of those kids. Send them to me. It’s not too late for them!
The poor children. How sad.
“If only opioids were legal...”
No indication that keeping them illegal has done a bit of good. It does keep the cartels and the prison-industrial complex in business, though.
LOL, what did it take, 30 seconds to get you out from under your rock?
Doing drugs is all they lived for.
Well, they did them right up until the end.
Kudos to them. Now the kids can be taken in by better people.
BTW: Who keeps the cartels in business?
ILLEGAL DRUG USERS
you kind of sound like a whiner yourself :) Didn’t know making an observation is whining.
I SAID THEY SHOULDN’T EVEN EXIST because family and friends could do a better job, but if they DO Exist, they need to be on top of this.
ODD for you, a conservative, to support social services.
SOCIAL SERVICE IS ABSURD.
FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE NOT.
And, family and friends can’t act without getting arrested.
If my BIL is beating the #### out of my niece, but bruises down show and SS says otherwise, i can’t do a damn thing about it.
NO CONSERVATIVE should be for social services. I missed its requirement in the constitution.
Not trying to be a kook, but it does seem odd that we have a heroin problem 15 years after the government flying planes in and out of the opium capital of the world day in, day out.
Evidently 2 mg of carfentanil is a lethal dose, since it is made for tranquilizing large mammals, up to and including elephants.
If for any reason you find yourself in close proximity to any powdered drugs these days, you should assume the worst and utilize hazmat protections for yourself and the area.
Heartbreaking. If many of these deaths are from prescription opiods, why are they not going after the pharmacists and doctors? Are the patients intentionally overmedicating? If so, what can be done to stop it?
I hope that doesn't actually surprise you...it shouldn't
Social services are typically overwhelmed and taking four children out of a home is just going to cause the social worker some serious headaches...
He’s doing a fantastic job.
His father Satan must be very proud.
Admire that 7-year old who got to school on her own, with slobs for parents.
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