College Station police launch investigation after child hospitalized for THC ingestion
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – The College Station Police Department is investigating an incident in which a 4-year-old child was admitted to a hospital in critical condition after consuming an unknown amount of Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.
Police were notified Saturday afternoon after the child was first taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan and then sent by medical helicopter to a children’s hospital in Temple.
According to a police report, the child reportedly began reacting to the narcotics while they were visiting the father’s girlfriend’s apartment on Longmire Drive in College Station.
Police went to the apartment and were permitted to search the home.
Inside, officers said they found marijuana under the living room couch in an area where the woman’s 2 and 3-year-old daughters were playing.
Partially smoked marijuana was also discovered in a box on top of the kitchen cabinets and drug paraphernalia was also found in the woman’s bedroom and inside a closet.
According to the arrest report, Octasha Dorsey told police the marijuana under the couch belonged to her boyfriend, but could provide no proof of the claim.
Dorsey was arrested by police on a charge of possession of marijuana in an amount of two ounces or less.
Child Protective Services were called to remove the 2 and 3-year-old girls from the apartment.
Although police are still investigating this case, the father is not named in this report because he has not been arrested or charged with a crime.
The child’s current condition was not immediately available.
