A Joliet mother has been charged after her 12-year-old daughter died Wednesday, days after ingesting heroin and fentanyl.
Officers responded about 8:30 a.m. Sunday to a home in the 1500 block of East Washington Street after her mother, Colette Bancroft, called police to report that her daughter was unresponsive in a second-floor bedroom, police said.
The girl apparently ingested an unknown amount of heroin and fentanyl, which was found in her mother’s purse in the bedroom, police said. She was identified as Mya King by the Will County medical examiner’s office.
Officers gave Mya naloxone and performed CPR before paramedics arrived and took her to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox. She was then taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, where she was pronounced dead just after 5 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
Bancroft, 35, was arrested at the scene and was charged with possession of a controlled substance.
Detectives are continuing to investigate the incident.
