BUTLER (KDKA) – A Butler County woman who was seven months pregnant is facing charges after she allegedly overdosed on heroin, forcing doctors to deliver her baby prematurely. 
 
 According to police, Kasey Dischman, 30, was found unresponsive in her East Butler apartment on 10th Street in the early morning hours of June 23. 
 
 Dischman was found by her boyfriend, who said he kicked in a bathroom door, found her on the floor and then called 911. After being transported to Butler Memorial Hospital, Dischman went into cardiac arrest and needed to be revived in the emergency room. 
 
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 As Dischman was transferred to UPMC Mercy Hospital unconscious and on a respirator, police with a search warrant found a needle hidden in the bathroom of her apartment. 
 
 According to the criminal complaint, medical records show Dischman tested positive for opioids and alcohol. 
 
 At Mercy Hospital, she was stabilized, and on Saturday moved to UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital for an emergency C-section. 
 
 “The baby is not doing good at all. She was resuscitated once and she’s on a life support system now,” said Lt. Eric Hermick, of Pennsylvania State Police. 
 
 As of Wednesday, Dischman was still in the hospital. When she is discharged, she will be taken into custody to face charges of felony aggravated assault of an unborn child. 
 
 The newborn baby girl has been declared brain dead and a decision has yet to be made about taking her off life-support. 
 
 “Should the baby not survive, and we’ve talked to the [District Attorney], he’s leaning towards filing the criminal homicide charge,” Lt. Hermick said. 
 
 Dischman told police she found the stamp bag of heroin under her couch and injected herself with it in the bathroom, the criminal complaint said. She also said she had just gotten out of jail on parole five days prior for retail theft, and this was the first she had used the drug since getting out. 
 
 Dischman’s boyfriend, 36-year-old Andrew Lucas, who is the father of the child, will also be charged. Police say he allegedly lied about what happened to Dischman when police arrived at the home. He claimed she had a seizure disorder. 
 
 Treatment for the overdose could have been administered quicker had he disclosed that information initially. 
 
 He is being held in the Mercer County Prison. 
 
 “If they had known right away, they could have administered Narcan and maybe prevented the remnants of this,” said Lt. Hermick. 
 
 According to the criminal complaint, the couple’s 6-year-old daughter was also in the apartment. 
 
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 EAST BUTLER, Pa. - UPDATE 10:30 p.m. 
 
 A Butler County mother is accused of overdosing on heroin while pregnant and is now in jail on a $250,000 bond. 
 
 Right now, her baby is in critical condition, fighting to stay alive at Magee Women's Hospital. 
 
 Kasey Dischman, 30, is also a patient there. 
 
 "I knew something was all bad," said Ashley Soose, who lives across the street from Dischman in East Butler. "I saw an ambulance by the alley and I think there was three or four cop cars and a fire truck too." 
 
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 She watched that scene unfold last Friday, as police and emergency officials rushed to revive 7-month pregnant Dischman from a heroin overdose. 
 
 "I cried about it," Soose said. "It's messed up." 
 
 Less than a week out of jail, police found Dischman unconscious inside of the apartment right across the street from Soose. 
 
 Physicians performed an emergency C-section in an effort to save the baby's life. 
 
 Dischman's boyfriend told them she wasn't on drugs. 
 
 "It breaks my heart," Soose said, who is a mother of three herself and a recovering heroin addict. She told Channel 11 she truly feels for Dischman, and her baby, who is now in critical condition. "It's hard. I actually struggle with that, but I'm doing better now," Soose said. "It definitely takes a grip on you." 
 
 Soose says finding her faith gave her strength, and she's hoping the same happens to Dischman. 
 
 "I will pray for that baby definitiely and I will pray for her." Dischman spent her entire pregnancy behind bars for retail theft. Channel 11 reached out to the Butler County prison warden, who said she was in drug and alcohol programs, as well as a re-entry program. She, and her boyfriend Andrew Lucas, are facing a string of charges. 
 
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 A Butler County woman is facing charges after she overdosed while seven months pregnant, police said. 
 
 Kasey Dischman, 30, overdosed in her East Butler home on Friday, days after getting out of jail for retail theft, authorities said. In order to try to save her baby, doctors had to deliver the girl by performing an emergency cesarean section. 
 
 Pennsylvania State Police said they are charging Dischman, who is recovering in a hospital, with aggravated assault on an unborn child. 
 
 Dischman’s baby is in critical condition and on life support. If the baby does not survive, police told Channel 11’s Amy Marcinkiewicz that they plan to charge Dischman with homicide. 
 
 “We have an infant that's probably not going to survive and it's due to her opiate addiction,” said Lt. Eric Hermick. 
 
 Police said that Dischman’s boyfriend, Andrew Lucas, told them that his girlfriend did not do drugs. 
 
 Lucas continued to lie and said the incident wasn’t an overdose, police said. Lucas said that Dischman was having seizures, so no one administered Narcan. 
 
 "They did not administer Narcan believing this was an underlying medical condition," Hermick said. 
 
 Police said they plan to charge Lucas with interfering with the investigation. 
 
 © 2018 Cox Media Group. ||||| EAST BUTLER — State police say they plan to charge a woman who apparently overdosed last week while more than seven months pregnant. 
 
 For now, 30-year-old Kasey R. Dischman is facing felony charges of aggravated assault of an unborn child and child endangerment and a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment. 
 
 But charges could be added or amended, investigators said, depending on the fate of the baby — who was delivered by emergency cesarean section Saturday. 
 
 “The baby's in bad shape,” police Lt. Eric Hermick said today. “The baby's in severe condition.” 
 
 Dischman remains at a Pittsburgh hospital and could be discharged today or Wednesday, authorities said. But she won't be going free. 
 
 Hermick said there's a probation detainer already filed against her. Police also plan to obtain an arrest warrant in the felony assault case against her then fetus. 
 
 “It goes to the opioid epidemic,” Hermick said of the case. “It's so severe it doesn't stop a mother 30-plus weeks pregnant from overdosing.” 
 
 Police and emergency crews found Dischman unresponsive at her home on Tenth Street in East Butler after her live-in boyfriend called authorities for help about 12:25 a.m. Friday. 
 
 She was taken by ambulance to Butler Memorial Hospital. On her way, police, she went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated. 
 
 Dischman eventually was transferred to Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh and placed on a ventilator. She was weaned off the respirator and on Saturday was taken to UPMC Magee-Women's Hospital in Pittsburgh, where she gave birth by c-section. 
 
 Hermick did not know the sex of the baby. He also didn't know if the newborn would ultimately survive. 
 
 A full story will appear in tomorrow's Butler Eagle.
– In a case that police say lays bare the disturbing extent of the opioid crisis, a woman in Pennsylvania faces charges of assaulting her baby by overdosing on heroin while seven months pregnant. The baby was delivered by emergency C-section Saturday after 30-year-old Kasey Dischman was found unresponsive in the bathroom of her East Butler home, CBS Pittsburgh reports. She had gotten out of jail for retail theft just five days earlier, authorities say. Police, who found a needle hidden in the bathroom after obtaining a warrant and searching the apartment, say Dischman will face charges including aggravated assault of an unborn child after she is released from the hospital. The baby girl has been declared brain dead and police say the charges could include homicide if she is taken off life support. "The baby's in bad shape," police Lt. Eric Hermick tells the Butler Eagle. The opioid epidemic, he says, is "so severe it doesn't stop a mother 30-plus weeks pregnant from overdosing." WPXI reports that Dischman's boyfriend, Andrew Lucas, will be charged with interfering with the investigation because he claimed she had a seizure disorder and didn't do drugs. Hermick says things could have turned out differently if doctors had known the truth and administered the anti-overdose drug Narcan right away. Police say the couple's 6-year-old daughter was also home when Dischman overdosed.