A Greensburg woman was arraigned Friday in connection with the overdose of a 4-year-old boy who police said ingested half of a marijuana gummy, according to the court papers.
Sarah Marie Murray, 32, is free on nonmonetary bail on child endangerment and reckless endangerment charges.
Police were called to a home on Southwest Avenue Jan. 20 after the child was unresponsive but breathing, authorities said.
Murray told investigators she ate half of the gummy and put the other half on a nightstand in a bedroom. Police believe the child ingested the other half and was en route to a hospital when he started having seizure-like symptoms.
He was hospitalized for several days, according to court papers. An analysis at the state police crime lab determined the gummies contained Delta 9 and Delta 8. Delta 8 THC, a psychoactive chemical derivative of the hemp plant that packs a high, is similar to Delta 9, the THC compound in marijuana.
Murray did not have an attorney listed in online court records. A preliminary hearing is set for June 25.
In a previous TribLive report, doctors expressed concerns with items packaged like candy, snack foods and chocolate that contain marijuana because they could be appealing to children. In 2023, the Pittsburgh Poison Control Center logged 40 calls involving Delta 8 overdoses, most of them among children 6 and younger.