Overview
- A rapid hospital screen indicated cocaine in a one-year-old who is hospitalized, a test that usually needs lab confirmation.
- Clinicians alerted the Principado de Asturias and the Guardia Civil, which triggered emergency child protection steps.
- Regional authorities removed guardianship from both parents and assumed temporary custody.
- The Guardia Civil and a local court opened an inquiry into how exposure happened, with the Judicial Police in Llanes leading.
- The father brought the child in after a scheduled visit under a separation agreement, a detail investigators are reviewing.