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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A mother from Pittsburgh is now facing charges after police said her 4-year-old son ingested fentanyl. According to court paperwork, detectives were called to UPMC Children’s Hospital on Monday after a 4-year-old boy was admitted into the ICU to be treated for fentanyl ingestion. Police confirm that his mom, Taneara Green, had found him unresponsive at their home on Smithton Avenue in the Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood of Pittsburgh around 11:30 a.m. Detectives said Green told them that she took fentanyl pills almost every morning. Detectives confirmed they searched the home, and in the bedroom upstairs, they found a kid’s shoe with a sock inside of it and in the sock, police note they found multiple stamp bags of heroin. Green has charges of endangering the welfare of children and aggravated assault.