Jul 29, 2014 2 min read

A South Franklin Township mother faces charges including endangering the welfare of children and possession of heroin after the drug was found at the home with her children inside after she overdosed earlier this month.

State police were called to the home of Lesley A. Victoria, 52, of 340 Old Scales Road, on July 12 after getting a report of a woman who had possibly overdosed and was hallucinating. When police arrived, they learned her 16-year-old son placed the call.

A friend of Victoria’s gave a trooper two stamp bags of suspected heroin. The friend told the trooper that one of the bags had been found under Victoria when she was being treated in her bed by ambulance personnel. The other stamp bag was found on a kitchen counter. Victoria was then taken to Washington Hospital for treatment.

Two days later, police received a call from Victoria’s sister-in-law.

She told police she and Victoria’s friend were taking care of the 16-year-old boy and his 14-year-old sister.

The two caretakers found additional drugs and paraphernalia at the house and wanted to turn over the items to police.

The two gave police several dozen empty stamp bags, a full stamp bag along with a rolled-up dollar bill and a gold case used to conceal the stamp bags.

The items were in areas of the house to which the two teens would have had access, police stated in court documents filed at the office of District Judge Ethan Ward.

Victoria, who is also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, is scheduled for a Sept. 16 preliminary hearing on the charges before Ward.