Attempted Drug-facilitated Sexual Assault— Xylazine Intoxication in a Child
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Hilke Andresen-Streichert [1] ; Stefanie Iwersen-Bergmann [1] ; Alexander Mueller [1] ; Sven Anders [1]
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[1] Institute of Legal Medicine University Medical Center Hamburg – Eppendorf Hamburg Germany
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- Localización: Journal of forensic sciences, ISSN-e 1556-4029, ISSN 0022-1198, Vol. 62, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 270-273
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
There are only a few cases of drug-facilitated sexual assaults on children reported in the literature so far. Here, a case of a four-year-old boy is presented. He was unconscious, and the accompanying adults reported that the child had been at a playground on his own.
Returning home, he complained of having been stung and collapsed immediately. Urine and serum samples of the child were investigated. In the toxicological analysis, xylazine, a sedative and muscle relaxant used in animals, was detected. Subsequent quantification by GC/MS after solid-phase extraction revealed 0.053 mg/L xylazine in serum and approximately 0.63 mg/L in urine. Furthermore, the child was examined by a forensic medical specialist. Police investigations revealed that the godfather, who had been previously accused of sexual abuse of children, had injected the child with the drug, possibly in preparation for a shared bath.
