An Odessa, Missouri, couple is facing multiple child abuse charges after a nine-year-old in their care was hospitalized with fentanyl poisoning earlier this year.

William J. Ellingworth, 31, and Krystal Harris, 33, were charged this week in Lafayette County Court with three counts each of felony child abuse or neglect. Ellingworth was also charged with second-degree drug trafficking, also a felony, according to court records.

First responders in Odessa received a 911 call around 10:40 p.m. on Feb. 19 regarding a nine-year-old boy who had stopped breathing at a house on South Fifth Street, according to court documents. While bringing the child to a local hospital in an ambulance, emergency medical responders gave him a dose of Narcan, which is used to reverse an opioid overdose, court doc

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