A mother in Spanaway, Wash. is accused of injecting her children with heroin.

According to KIRO, someone contacted the state's Child Protective Services claiming they saw Ashlee Hutt inject her three young children with the drug.

Detective Ed Troyer with the Pierce County Sheriff's Department told the news station, "some of the statements [the children] made were very disturbing about how they would get sleeping juice to go to sleep and it was injected into them by needle."



The children - ages 6, 4, and 2 - were found with puncture marks and bruising near injection sites.

Leroy McIver, the father, was found living with his family in what was described as a state of filth; the home was allegedly filled with needles, heroin, and rat droppings.

Both pleaded not guilty to charges of child assault, and delivery of a controlled substance to a person under 18, and child endangerment according to KIRO.

The children were taken away in November 2015 as investigators took a look at the case - which began in May of that year.



