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A Santa Ana man has been sentenced to four years in state prison on a child abuse charge after his 10-month-old daughter accidentally ingested fentanyl and had to be revived.
The incident occurred June 25, when Jovany Armando EncisoSolorio, 31, exposed his daughter to drug paraphernalia, in this case, a straw he had used to ingest fentanyl, authorities said. After sucking on the straw containing the illicit substance, the child appeared lifeless and was revived by her father using Narcan, a medication for reversing opioid overdoses.
He was sentenced to four years in state prison on his guilty plea of child abuse and endangerment, along with a felony enhancement for causing bodily injury to a child under 5 years old.
Prosecutors had sought the maximum sentence of 23 years in state prison and objected to the lower sentence offered by the court, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
“Fentanyl is a deadly game of Russian roulette – for the people who know they’re taking it, for the people who have no idea what they are taking actually contains fentanyl, and for innocent babies like this who rely on adults to protect them,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer.
Originally published at Mona Darwish