据旧金山地方检察官称，一名2岁女孩的父母被控谋杀，该女孩死于家庭加州公寓中的芬太尼过量，他声称这对夫妇表现出“故意无视人的生命”。
据旧金山地方检察官布鲁克·詹金斯(Brooke Jenkins)称，指控是在这名蹒跚学步的婴儿死亡两个月后提出的，法医裁定其为急性芬太尼中毒。
检察官说，2月12日早上，旧金山警方接到911电话，称一名儿童停止了呼吸，于是前往她家。地方检察官办公室在一份声明中说，医务人员宣布女孩当场死亡，“观察到尸僵和尸斑的迹象，表明孩子已经死亡几个小时了。”
检察官说，孩子的父母——38岁的米歇尔·普莱斯和她的男朋友，43岁的史蒂夫·拉米雷斯——最初都被指控犯有危害儿童罪、持有芬太尼和持有吸毒用具。
周三，詹金斯宣布，她的办公室提交了一份修正的诉状，另外指控父母二级谋杀，并指控他们故意造成伤害或伤害，导致孩子死亡。
法庭记录显示，在父母周四未能出庭参加修订后的诉状听证会后，法官向他们发出了法官令。
普莱斯由公设辩护人代理。旧金山公共辩护律师办公室拒绝就她的案件发表评论。ABC新闻已经联系了拉米雷斯的律师进行评论。
詹金斯说，这标志着她的办公室提交的第一个与致命的芬太尼过量有关的杀人案件。
她在周三的新闻发布会上说:“这个公寓周围松散地放着吸毒用具，还有不同数量的芬太尼松散地放在外面。”
检察官说，在现场发现了一个用过的Narcan容器，毒理学分析显示，除了芬太尼外，在幼儿的血液中还有纳洛酮(Narcan)。
詹金斯说，Narcan的存在和使用表明父母知道芬太尼的危险，但“仍然允许他们的孩子接触到这种药物。”
她说，她认为谋杀指控是适当的，她说，“对我来说，很明显，这些父母知道它的致命性和芬太尼的危险。”
地方检察官说，毒理学报告是她办公室在提出谋杀指控前需要的“最重要的证据”。她说，办公室也一直在等待死因。
詹金斯说:“我们的理论将是有意识地无视人类生命——不是说这显然是故意死亡或故意杀人，而是说他们再次意识到芬太尼带来的危险，但仍然允许这个孩子以我们认为是鲁莽的方式获得它。”
检察官说，当警察在2月12日到达住所时，拉米雷斯据称试图骑自行车逃跑，拒捕，并在被拘留时打伤了一名警察。检察官说，警察在他附近发现了两根玻璃管，在他自行车上的一个袋子里发现了第三根。他还被控另外一项罪名，即持有吸毒用具和抗拒、妨碍和拖延一名治安人员。
检察官说，在普莱斯和拉米雷斯被捕时，他们的血液中含有“高含量”的芬太尼和甲基苯丙胺。
詹金斯说:“我想向那些可能正在与药物滥用障碍作斗争的父母们说明，首先，我们必须保护旧金山的儿童，这是一项我非常认真对待的工作。”
Parents of 2-year-old girl who died from fentanyl overdose charged with murder
The parents of a 2-year-old girl who died of a fentanyl overdose in the family's California apartment have been charged with murder, according to the San Francisco district attorney, who alleged the couple showed a "conscious disregard for human life."
The charges come two months after the toddler's death, which the medical examiner ruled to be acute fentanyl toxicity, according to San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
San Francisco police officers responded to her home on the morning of Feb. 12 in response to a 911 call that a child was not breathing, prosecutors said. Medics pronounced the girl dead at the scene and "observed signs of rigor mortis and lividity, indicating the child had been dead for several hours," the district attorney's office said in apress release.
The child's parents -- 38-year-old Michelle Price and her boyfriend, 43-year-old Steve Ramirez -- were both initially charged with felony child endangerment, possession of fentanyl and possession of drug paraphernalia, prosecutors said.
On Wednesday, Jenkins announced that her office filed an amended complaint that additionally charges both parents with second-degree murder and allegations that they willfully caused harm or injury resulting in death to a child.
A judge issued bench warrants for the parents after they failed to show up to court for a hearing on the amended complaint Thursday, court records show.
Price is being represented by a public defender. The San Francisco Public Defender's Office declined to comment on her case at this time. ABC News has reached out to Ramirez's attorney for comment.
Jenkins said this marks the first homicide case her office has filed in connection with a fatal fentanyl overdose.
"There were drug paraphernalia loosely around this apartment, as well as different amounts of fentanyl loosely sitting out in the open," she said at a press briefing on Wednesday.
Prosecutors said a used Narcan container was observed at the scene and that the toxicology analysis showed naloxone (Narcan), in addition to fentanyl, in the toddler's bloodstream.
Jenkins said the presence and use of Narcan suggested that the parents were aware of the danger of fentanyl and "still allowed their child to have access to that drug."
She said she believes the murder charges are appropriate, saying, "It was clear to me that these parents were aware of its lethality and the danger of fentanyl."
The district attorney said the toxicology report was the "most significant piece of evidence" her office needed before filing the murder charges. The office had also been waiting for the cause of death, she said.
"Our theory will be a conscious disregard for human life -- not that this was obviously an intentional death that occurred or intentional killing, but that they were, again, aware of the dangers that fentanyl posed and still allowed it to be available to this child in a manner that we believe was reckless," Jenkins said.
When officers arrived at the residence on Feb. 12, Ramirez allegedly attempted to flee on a bicycle, resisted arrest and injured an officer while being detained, prosecutors said. Officers found two glass pipes near him and a third in a bag attached to his bike, prosecutors said. He was also charged with an additional count of possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting, obstructing and delaying a peace officer.
"High levels" of fentanyl and methamphetamine were determined to be in the blood of both Price and Ramirez at the time they were arrested, prosecutors said.
"I want to be clear to parents who may be struggling with substance abuse disorder -- first and foremost, we must protect the children in San Francisco, and this is a job that I take extremely seriously," Jenkins said.
