Newborn Drugged with Methadone in Serious Condition: Mother Under Investigation

Newborn Drugged with Methadone, Hospitalized in Respiratory Arrest in Lucca: She is Out of Danger but the Mother is Under Investigation.

This is what the doctors at the hospital discovered. San Luca of Lucca who are treating the little girl, brought by her parents around 23,30:XNUMX pm last Thursday in respiratory arrest. The report on the little girl's conditions was forwarded to the agents of the Lucca flying squad who started the investigations and investigated the mother.

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The investigations of the Lucca Police Headquarters Flying Squad began when, from the first findings on the child, the doctors did not identify any possible cause for the coma into which the newborn had fallen. No hypothesis of natural cause, no obvious sign of trauma. The analysis of the newborn's urine to search for any narcotic substances, have – unfortunately – revealed a bitter reality. The child had a level of methadone 16 times higher than the amount required to be considered positive: 1.644 nanograms per milliliter (the positivity rate is when it exceeds 100). However, the analyses also highlighted the presence of cocaine in the newborn's body: 74 nanograms per milliliter (the positivity rate, also in this case, is when the level of 100 ng/ml is exceeded).

The most likely hypothesis, therefore, is that the little girl was administered methadone, probably taken from the bottle since the mother does not breastfeed the newborn.

The Flying Squad is still gathering evidence to reconstruct the dynamics of the facts, so at the moment the prosecutor who ordered the investigation, Laura Guidotti, has not yet formulated a precise hypothesis of crime. Both parents live in Lucca. The little girl, still hospitalized in the hospital in Pisa, was also intubated in the first phase: now she is breathing on her own, explains the police. In the next few days, however, the doctors will subject her to further tests for neurological assessments.