A couple injected their three young children with heroin, telling them it was "feel-good medicine" to help them sleep, police in the US said.
Ashlee Hutt, 24, and Leroy McIver, 25, allegedly drugged their son, six, and daughters, four and two, in their filthy Washington home filled with rat droppings and used needles.
Child Protective Services (CPS) launched an investigation in November last year after someone in the house claimed they saw the children with the drug, Kiro7 reported.
According to a probable cause affidavit, the six-year-old told investigators "his mum and dad give him and his sisters the 'feel-good medicine'" which "he described as a white powder which was mixed with water". He said his parents "used a needle to inject the 'feel-good medicine' into him and his sisters."