A married television couple in Arizona are facing drug charges after cocaine was found in their four-month-old baby's system.
Som Lisaius, 42, and Krystin Sorich Lisaius, 26, were arraigned on three criminal felony charges each in Tucson after police said their daughter ingested cocaine through her mother's breast milk.
Krystin Lisaius, who used to be a reporter at KGUN-TV allegedly had taken the drug before breast-feeding the baby girl.
According to reports, the couple's daughter became unresponsive and lethargic after breast-feeding on May 15, so they took her to Oro Valley Hospital.
The television personalities said the child was 'wabbly,' 'became limp' and that her 'eyes were rolling into the back of her head,' according to reports
The pair did not want to allow the hospital to draw the baby's blood, so they left against the hospital's recommendation, but agreed to have her transferred to another facility.
Officials transported the baby girl via ambulance to Diamond Children's Hospital, and once there, the couple was still uncooperative and refused a toxicology test for the child.
Eventually, a urinalysis and a toxicology screen was conducted in the presence of hospital staff along with officials with child welfare and the tests showed that the baby girl had cocaine in her system. The baby has recovered and is been cared for by officials.
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