Mother is under arrest after her 3-month-old baby girl found with heroin in her system

Crystal Cumberland. (Photo: WPXI.com)

UNIONTOWN, Pa. — Police arrested a woman after they say she exposed her baby to fentanyl.

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But she told investigators that’s not the drug she thought she was using.

The baby had to be flown to Children’s Hospital from Uniontown.

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Crystal Cumberland is in jail and facing charges including aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

According to Pennsylvania State Police in Fayette County, in November, the baby girl had to be given several doses of Narcan to revive her.

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At the time, investigators thought the baby overdosed on heroin, but according to a criminal complaint, Cumberland “admitted to hospital staff to snorting a white powder to get high, which exposed the infant to fentanyl that was sold as heroin.”

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