She’s a heroin heroine.
A 9-year-old girl in Ohio phoned for help from the backseat of her parents moving car — saving both of their lives, and her own — after realizing that they had overdosed, a report says.
“I’m so proud of her,” Anna Dove, the girl’s grandmother, told WLWT.
“She saved two lives and her own.”
The child had been alone in the back of the vehicle, watching her mom nod in and out of consciousness, when she realized her dad was already out cold from a heroin overdose in the passenger seat.
In fear for their lives, she quickly grabbed one of their phones and called Dove, who then alerted police.
“She was very frantic, scared, crying, screaming, ‘Grandma, I’m going to die,’” Dove said.
The girl called 911, soon-after, and police were able to track their whereabouts. Her mom managed to eventually pull over in an auto service parking lot, where police caught up to them, WLWT reports.
The parents — identified as Paula Smith and Charles Dove — were both arrested and charged, WLWT reports.
They are the third set of parents from Ohio to have overdosed from heroin while watching their kids this month.
Last week, four children — ages 9 to 13 — woke up to find their mom and dad dead from an apparent overdose and were also forced to call police themselves.
“My mom’s on the floor and my stepdad’s basically pale and they’re not waking up,” one of the kids told an emergency dispatcher, according to the Washington Post.
In early March, a couple was busted in Lorain, Ohio after being found passed out in the presence of their children. The father had been out cold in the car, with a baby in the backseat, and the mother was discovered unconscious in their home across the street, along with four other kids.
Both were charged with child endangerment.