Ohio police have released a graphic photo of a couple overdosing on heroin with a four-year-old boy in the car. Rhonda Pasek, 50, and James Acord, 47, were charged with endangering children after they became unconscious during a traffic stop in East Liverpool. The boy, Pasek's four-year-old son, was taken into custody by county children's services. Authorities released the image to raise awareness of the Midwestern US state's heroin epidemic.
Officials wrote on Facebook: "We feel it necessary to show the other side of this horrible drug.
"We feel we need to be a voice for the children caught up in this horrible mess.
"This child can't speak for himself but we are hopeful his story can convince another user to think twice about injecting this poison while having a child in their custody."
The couple were detained on Wednesday afternoon after a policeman spotted their Ford Explorer being driven erratically. Officer Kevin Thompson followed the vehicle as it weaved along the road before it braked suddenly behind a school bus that was dropping off children.
He said he found Acord with "pin point pupils", his "head bobbing back and forth his speech was almost unintelligible".
The 47-year-old claimed he was taking Rhonda Pasek, who was slumped over in the passenger seat, to a hospital.
When he tried to drive away the officer pulled the keys out of the ignition and spotted his four-year-old child in the back seat.
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