Police came upon the decomposed body of a 4-year-old girl as they responded to a Beaumont apartment where a couple had overdosed on drugs.
The gruesome discovery was made at around 8:54 p.m. Wednesday as police tried to save the lives of the adults found unresponsive at the scene from what appeared to be drug overdoses.
“California Fire had been dispatched to a subject having a seizure, but upon arrival found two adults appearing to suffer from overdoses and a deceased child inside the home,” the police statement read.
“It appeared to detectives that the 4-year-old female child had numerous bruises throughout her body, appeared severely malnourished.”
Authorities believe the girl had been dead for more than two days. The male adult was rushed to a local hospital where he remains critical while the woman couldn’t be saved and died at the ER.
The relationship between the three persons was not immediately clear.
