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Investigators person released chilling caller audio of a Kentucky mother confessing to exposing her eight-month-old babe woman to heroin aft she had traces of nan supplier connected her hands.
Brianne Ehlinger, 33, and Shawn Gardner, 35, were some arrested successful November of 2023 aft their eight-month-old girl went into respiratory arrest.
Now Boone County investigators person made nationalist audio successful which Ehlinger tin beryllium heard confessing to really her kid overdosed.
'It's a lot,' nan detective tin beryllium heard saying. It ne'er should person happened,' Ehlinger says, tearfully.
The detective is past heard telling her successful audio aired by Fox 19: 'Yeah, yeah. It decidedly ne'er should person happened. But from here, this is really we moved guardant and makes things better.'
Brianne Ehlinger, 33, is pictured pinch a different baby, and not nan 1 that overdosed connected heroin. She confessed to exposing her eight-month-old babe woman to heroin
Ehlinger is pictured pinch her partner Shawn Gardner, 35. Both were arrested successful November of 2023 pursuing nan overdose of their baby
The overdose happened astatine nan family location successful Burlington, Kentucky, successful Boone County
Ehlinger, who has fixed commencement to astatine slightest 3 children, explained really she had a supplier addiction since she was 18 years aged but had been cleanable for 2 years having completing a curen program.
However, she told nan detective really had precocious suffered a relapse and made a tragic correction aft utilizing nan drug.
'Later on, I was playing pinch my kids, and I thought she had thing successful her mouth,' nan mother explained.
'So, I put my digit successful her rima to cheque her mouth, and past she kinda, like... she wasn't breathing, for illustration thing was going on. So, we called 911 and I didn't moreover deliberation astir thing being connected my hands,'
Ehlinger had accidentally allowed her babe to ingest nan supplier aft forgetting to lavation her hands.
Brianne Ehlinger, 33, and Shawn Gardner, 35, were arrested successful November of 2023
Brianne Ehlinger is seen pinch Boone County officers during her first apprehension successful November 2023
The mates person had astatine slightest 3 children together complete nan years
After realizing thing was incorrect pinch her baby, it was past her partner Gardner who called 911.
'Me and my sister gave her CPR because she was still benignant of breathing, but she was going retired of it,' Ehlinger explained to nan detective.
Paramedics arrived astatine nan location and were capable to administer Narcan to reverse nan opioid overdose.
Incredibly, nan babe survived and aft spending a fewer days being cared for successful Cincinnati Children's Hospital, she was later released.
Ehlinger is pictured alongside different of her daughter's successful a photograph connected her Facebook page
Gardner is seen playing pinch 1 of his daughters successful photos posted to societal media
After realizing thing was incorrect pinch her baby, it was past her partner Gardner who called 911 and paramedics arrived astatine nan home
Alongside nan confession, Ehlinger told officers that her partner, Gardner, who had besides undergone a curen programme successful nan past, had fixed her nan drugs.
Ehlinger completed a curen programme successful 2019 while Gardner besides underwent a supplier curen from which he ‘graduated’ successful 2016. But some appeared to person relapsed successful caller years.
The brace were arrested successful May pinch Ehlinger pleading blameworthy to wanton endangerment and endangering nan use of a minor.
She will beryllium sentenced later this period and faces betwixt 1 and 5 years successful prison.
Gardner will besides beryllium successful tribunal later successful July to look akin charges.
The kid has since been taken into attraction nether nan Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
