Overview

• Urgent blood and urine tests at Hospital La Fe in late July identified metabolites of cocaine and THC after the child was admitted with convulsions.
• Hospital staff alerted the Policía Nacional, and the case was assigned to its specialized Grupo de Menores unit before being referred to Juzgado de Instrucción número 4 de Valencia.
• The parents, aged 46 and 26, were detained on July 30 but later released with charges of child abandonment and offenses against public health.
• The Generalitat Valenciana’s Social Services have assumed emergency custody of the child, who remains stable and well cared for.
• The Observatorio Español de las Drogas y las Adicciones estimates that about 23% of Spanish children aged 1–5 face chronic exposure to harmful drug residues in domestic settings.