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Kasey Dischman, 31, is no longer facing a felony assault charge after she overdosed in June while seven months pregnant, leaving her child brain-damaged.
(Butler County Prison)
A judge tossed a felony assault charge against a Pennsylvania woman who overdosed on heroin while pregnant — giving her unborn child brain damage.
Kasey Dischman, 31, overdosed on June 23 at a house in East Butler while she was seven months pregnant. She went into cardiac arrest, then a coma, which resulted in doctors having to perform a cesarean section.
Dischman was facing a charge for felony assault after her child was brain damaged due to her drug use, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. However, Butler County Common Pleas Judge William Shaffer threw out the charge because he said it’s against state law.
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