Thurgood Marshall graduation 2012
Badin vs. Versailles
Law Enforcement Memorial Day
Home > Blogs > Dayton area crime > Archives > 2009 > October > 29 > Entry
Boy, 6, overdoses on grandma’s pills at YWCA, police say
DAYTON - A 44-year-old grandmother faces a misdemeanor child endangering charge after her 6-year-old grandson overdosed on some prescription pain medication Wednesday, Oct. 28.
Officers were dispatched to 141 W. Third St. about 10:21 a.m. after workers at the YWCA found the boy in and out consciousness, according to a police report. The boy told workers he took two “orange and pink” pills, but didn’t know what they were, the report stated.
He was taken to Dayton Children’s Medical Center and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit for observation, the report stated. He is expected to be OK.
Officers located his grandmother, Sheryl S. Holderman, who also seemed incoherent and on medication, the report stated. Holderman and her husband, David Holderman, have legal custody of the boy, the report stated.
Holderman said she took an Ambien pill to help her sleep and was not sure what pills the boy took, the report stated. Workers at the YWCA found prescription drugs throughout the room and said she violated the organization’s policy that all medications must be registered and kept in a locked storage unit at the facility, the report stated.
Montgomery County Children’s Services was called to assist in the investigation and was going to work with the family to setup a safety plan, the report stated.
Sheryl Holderman was issued a summons to appear in court on the misdemeanor charge.
Tweet
