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LAUREL HILL — A 2-year-old child is currently in the hospital recovering from reportedly ingesting narcotics.

A 911 call on Sunday to Scotland County law enforcement about an unresponsive child on McFarland Road was received at about 9 a.m., sending EMS along with sheriff’s deputies to the location. Upone arrival, the minor child was not breathing and was given Narcan, then transported to a local hospital where he was listed in stable condition as of Monday morning. He is in the care of Child Protective Services and will be placed with family when he is released.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, the child had ingested a Fentanyl and Heroin combination. The guardians, Thomas Scott Ivey Sr., 34, and Caitlin Sessoms, 27, were both arrested after a search warrant was executed. It was not disclosed whether the couple is the child’s parents.

Both have received two counts each for felony child abuse by negligence, resulting in serious bodily injury and felony child abuse by negligence, resulting in serious physical injury.

Ivey and Sessoms each received a $500,000 bond and were scheduled to be in court on Monday.

At the residence, officers also seized a number of items for evidence, and Ivey and Sessoms will receive additional charges related to possession of Schedule I and II narcotics, related to MDMA, “ecstasy” and heroin.

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