Parents Arrested For Injecting Kids with Heroin

Leanna Commins
Updated

From Cosmopolitan

According to CNN, Ashlee Hutt, 24, and Mac Leroy McIver, 25, of Tacoma, Washington, face three felony counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance to a minor, criminal mistreatment of a child, and assault of a child after they allegedly injected their three young children with heroin. Both Hutt and McIver admit to heroin usage, but deny injecting their children with it.

The couple's 6-year-old son told a Child Protective Service worker that his parents would inject him and his sisters, 2 and 4, with a needle filled with a white powder mixed with water. He described it as "feel-good medicine." He said he and his sisters would usually fall asleep afterward. CPS then began a six-month investigation of Hutt and McIver for their alleged mistreatment of their three children.

In November 2015, CPS found the children to be living in what they described as a hazardous household in Hutt and McIver's home, which was reportedly filled with rat droppings, heroin, and needles.

Citing "abuse and neglect," CPS removed the children, and later found marks, cuts, and bruises on the children's arms. According to CNN, the county's deputy prosecuting attorney said the bruises looked as though they were caused by needle injections. Additionally, officials tested the children's hair follicles, and while the 6-year-old tested negative for heroin, Hutt and McIver's middle child had a trace amount of the drug in her system. Their youngest tested positive.

When interviewed by CPS, both parents blame other adults (who lived with them) for injected their children. According to CNN, McIver later told authorities "he believed the babysitter may be responsible."

A spokesperson for the sheriff's department told a local news station that the children are currently in foster homes and are "doing well." While they await trial, Hutt and McIver's bond has been set at $100,000, and a judge also issued a restraining order that prohibits them from contacting their children or being within 1,000 feet of them.

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