Posted on 10/05/2016 6:59:51 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Child told school officials she couldn't wake parents up
McKEESPORT, Pa. —Two adults were found dead at home of suspected drug overdoses after their 7-year-old daughter told an employee at her school that she couldn't wake them up, police said.
The medical examiner on Tuesday identified the victims as Christopher Dilly, 26, and Jessica Lally, 25. The bodies were found Monday evening in the house on Evans Avenue in McKeesport.
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"Early indications are they may have been there for a day or two," Allegheny County police Lt. Andrew Schurman said. He added that there was evidence of drug use in the home, and that foul play is not suspected.
Police said the girl told adults at her school that her parents were unresponsive. When officers arrived, they found the bodies in the living room. Three children were inside the home -- a 9-month-old girl, 3-year-old boy, and a 5-year-old boy. The 7-year-old girl also lived there.
The children were all taken to UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh for medical evaluation.
McKeesport police said a separate fatal overdose occurred on the same street earlier in the day on the 500 block of Evans. They said a man died in his apartment after overdosing on heroin.
“It’s getting ridiculous. This is three bodies in one day," neighbor Jordan McCallister said.
Haverhill MA,Dec 2014
A young brother and sister have discovered both their parents dead in their Massachusetts home from what police suspect was a heroin overdose.
The Essex district attorney’s office says foul play is not suspected in the deaths of the Haverhill husband and wife.
Spokeswoman Carrie Kimball-Monahan said Sunday that state police are investigating the ‘unattended’ deaths of the 39-year-old man and 36-year-old woman whose lifeless bodies were discovered Saturday at their home on Lamoille Avenue in Haverhill.
She said the couple’s 10-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter discovered their parents dead at around 10.45am and called their grandmother.
So sad. I bet the kids won’t touch the stuff now.
Dilly-Lally? Wow.
Sorry, it is sad, but MAINLY be ause of what these irresponsible parents have done.
Ages too young, drugs, and different names with 4 kids. Sounds like typical post-modern “do what you want” hedonism than adult moral responsibility.
To keep kids from suffering these fates, we epreally need to get moral again and put SHAME back in immorality, such as screwing around, priducing children who don’t deserve such fate.
It is a world that more and more people are trying to escape.
I wonder if a dealer in that area was passing out uncut horse in order to bump off some people he didn’t like.
What shocked me about the story is that they handed Narcan kits out at a community meeting and stressed that even a child could use one to revive a parent that overdosed.
This is something that never occurred to us when we were growing up.
This is the second or third story of this type in the last month.
If this sort of thing was happening under a Republican president, the MSM would find a way to attach his name to it, and to relate it to his policies.
As I’m sure they will, commencing November 9th.
Before shame can go anywhere, first a sense of value has to exist. We cannot put the cart before the, er, horse.
Don’t count on that. The statist s say otherwise. These children have been put through hell, they most likely have a genetic propensity to addiction, and more than likely they will be thrown into foster care. Their futures are not bright by any means
The only uncertainty is if the heroin epidemic will beat the homeless to the front page, above the fold.
People have shunned the love of (that comes from) God, leaving their existence to be a godless hell.
What an oddly worded headline.
McKeesport another example of a place that used to be civilized before “free trade” and globalism became du rigeur.
Politically, drug addictions are not nearly as important a topic for the left. Because they at least suggest some kind of responsibility personally shunned. Homelessness can be more easily pinned on “economics.” Addiction stories will continue to be on the back pages, homelessness and tut-tutting at the Donald crowd on the front.
This needs to be said loud and clear all over this Country every day, every hour.
Without true Christian moral values society will never recover.
When people have lost the sense of outrage they’ve lost the ability to contain evil.
“Christian moral values” are not worth a sack of warm spit with no Savior.
We don’t have any lack of “Christian moral values” — we see them in various political “isms” through and through. What we also see is an utter hash made of them because of no Savior acknowledged as the Prince over all this human activity.
What has been lost is all sense that humanity could be better than this and upon what basis.
Whoa we used to live in that neighborhood, it’s in Bradford, just north of 125 right? I think we tried to buy a house on that street but got outbid before we got ours on Leroy Ave. Sad. Such a cute area with the old time streetlights still in place on certain corners. We loved it.
I never thought Haverhill was as bad as its reputation, but then again I have lived in “transitional” areas of Atlanta, lol!
Haverhill, like Lawrence, is chock full of hints of a lovely, prosperous, dignified past. We left for the South 12 years ago, but at that time it was looking like it was starting to turn around and regain some of that old status. Guess not. Can’t fight the Progressive tide of slipping into social entropy with the creeps we have in charge these days.
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