Mom found unconscious from overdose with baby in backseat
A 24-year-old woman from New Jersey was found slumped behind the wheel of her car after overdosing on heroin while her three-month-old son cried in the back seat.
Katelyn Cox was unconscious in the driver's seat of her Hyundai Sonata which she had left running outside a bagel shop and pizzeria in Staten island, New York.
Cox only regained consciousness after EMS workers gave her naloxone, an anti-overdose spray.
Katelyn Cox, 24, was found to have overdosed on heroin while her three-month-old son was in the back seat along Arthur Kill Road in Staten Island, New York (pictured)
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The mother and baby were then taken to a local hospital.
The baby was not harmed and is now in the custody of the Administration for Children’s Services, police said.
Cox was charged with acting in a manner injurious to a child, operating a motor vehicle impaired by drugs, reckless endangerment and refusal to take a breath test.
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