A middle schooler overdosed inside a Florida classroom after allegedly bringing fentanyl to school that she found at home.
The girl’s caregivers, Joshua Sanders and Courtney Delaney, are now each facing three counts of child neglect—one with bodily harm and two without bodily harm—after the juvenile lost consciousness in the classroom, requiring school staff to perform CPR until she could be given a life-saving dose of Narcan, according to a statement from the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office.
“This could have ended very, very differently if not for the fast actions taken by the school nurse and other staff, as well as my deputies,” Sheriff Bill Prummell remarked in the statement. “It is inexcusable and unforgivable that this child was able to access this poison so easily, and that’s why these arrests were made. I thank God that we were able to intervene before something even worse happened.”…