A six-month-old baby has
tested positive for cocaine in Padua, northern Italy.
The parents, who are both
recovering drug addicts, are being investigated by police - but are now in
hospital after attempting suicide.
The father, a 38-year-old cook
and the mother, who is 23 and unemployed, took the little boy to hospital with
a fever and red eyes last month
Doctors were initially unable to tell what
was wrong, but after blood tests were conducted, it was discovered the child
had ingested cocaine.
His parents now face charges of abuse, and
Venice’s Juvenile Court ordered the child to be taken into a secure facility
for the duration of the investigation.
Police found no traces of the
drug when they searched the couple’s home and the mother has claimed that she
never took drugs while pregnant.
In April, a mother from Sicily
was jailed for three years after her young son was admitted to hospital with
bruises, scratches, burns and suffering from a cocaine overdose.
In December 2011, the
18-month-year-old was admitted to a children’s hospital in Palermo in a
life-threatening condition. A
large concentration of cocaine was found in the child’s urine suggesting the
child could have suffered from an overdose.
Earlier this month, in France,
a ten-month-old baby was taken to hospital after ingesting a lump of cannabis
belonging to its father
Source: daily mirror
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