Parents arrested for injecting kids with heroine as 'feel good medicine"

A couple in Washington is facing serious criminal charges after police found that they kept their children in a rat-droppings infested home and drug needles, and for injecting their children with heroine calling it "feel good medicine".

The pair has been charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance to a person under 18, criminal mistreatment in the second degree and assault of a child in the second degree, according to SF Gate.

"It wasn't a good living situation even without the issue of heroin", said Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Detective Ed Troyer.

"We, unfortunately, find kids living in deplorable conditions all too often, but we don't see parents intentionally putting drugs into kids," he added.

The three children have been placed into protective custody. The 6-year-old, 4-year-old and 2-year-old tested positive for the drug, this comes after social workers found bruise markings on the 2-year-old who recalled "the 'feel good medicine' as a white powder which was mixed with water" which his parents would use to "inject the 'feel good medicine' into him and his sisters", reported the news source.