Couple found dead after 7-year-old daughter tells school bus driver she couldn’t wake them up

Three more children recovered from house in Pennsylvania.

Allegheny County police found the bodies of a couple inside their apartment outside Pittsburgh on Monday after their seven-year-old daughter told her school bus driver that she had been unable to wake up her parents.

According to a report in The Washington Post, Christopher Dilly, 26, and Jessica Lally, 25, died of suspected drug overuse in their house in McKeesport, Pa.

The seven-year-old girl got dressed on Monday morning and went to school after failing to wake up her parents. While returning home she told the school bus driver that she couldn’t wake up her parents leading to an inspection by the authorities.

Inside the house, the authorities also found three other children aged 5 years, 3 years and 9 months who were taken to the hospital for treatment. The children were not harmed.

After hospital treatment, the children will be handed over to Allegheny county’s department of children, youth, and families.

WPXI reported that Jessica Lally’s sister Courtney Lally knew about the couple using drugs and she had tried to get help from the police and the Allegheny County Children Youth and Families (CYF).

“My sister wasn’t the person she became when it came to drugs. She wasn’t the person I knew. It was like the drugs had taken over and at first, we didn’t know it was heroin,” Courtney said.

“She loved her kids — she did. She loved her mom, she loved me, she loved us….I feel like if I wouldn’t have done that, it would have been way different and we could have made up months ago, and she’d still be here today,” she added.

The incident raises some serious questions about Allegheny County’s drug overdose. The county health officials had recently admitted that there was opioid overdose epidemic in the county.

There were 422 opioid overdose deaths in Allegheny County last year — the largest death toll in county history and the upward trend is continuing.

Authorities said that the incident in the girl’s house was the second case of a double overdose they had responded to on that block in less than a day.

Meanwhile, the McKeesport School District released a statement reading: “Our school district took immediate action after we were notified of the concerns shared by one of our students on their route home.”

“We alerted all appropriate officials and ensured the students’ safety. Each school in our district offers counseling to any student who needs it. We will be available for the family affected by this tragedy,” it added.