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A Lancaster woman is facing charges after police say she overdosed, and children had to be removed from her apartment that was in deplorable condition. Ebony Frederick, 33, of Lancaster, faces charges two counts of endangering the welfare of children. Police said officers were dispatched to the 100 block of East King Street at 9:36 p.m. on Aug. 7 to assist EMS with a sick person. Officers later learned that the medical issue turned out to be an overdose. Frederick was found unresponsive in the apartment, and two children ages 3 and 10 were found in a bathtub. The apartment was unfit for human habitation, as the floor was covered in bodily fluids, feces, and vomit, according to police. Officers also found soiled diapers in a bed and in a dresser. Part of the floor was also covered in cleaning solvent and bleach. Police also said the bathtub the children were found in had a "significant amount" of standing water in it. The children, who police said showed physical signs of...

Ebony Frederick × Children removed from Lancaster apartment after mother suffers overdose Ebony Frederick LANCASTER — State Police troopers removed two children — a 3-year-old and a 10-month-old — from the apartment of a woman suffering from a heroin overdose, according to a police report. Police say officers responded to an apartment on the 100 block of East King Street at 9:36 p.m. on August 7 to assist emergency medical personnel with a sick person call . Officers found an unresponsive woman, Ebony Frederick, suffering from an apparent overdose. According to police, the apartment was found to be unfit for human habitation. The floor was covered in bodily fluids, feces and vomit, police say. Soiled diapers were found lying in the open, on a bed and inside dresser drawers . Officers found part of the floor was covered in cleaning fluid and chlorine bleach. The bathtub was found to have a significant amount of standing water in it — enough to endanger the children, who had been insi...

A Lancaster woman who was treated for an apparent overdose is facing child endangerment charges after responding officials found two young children in an uninhabitable apartment with her last week. Ebony Frederick, 33, of the 100 block of East King Street , was taken to Lancaster County Prison following medical treatment, authorities said. When police, and emergency personnel, responded to a sick person call at Frederick's efficiency apartment on Aug.7, Frederick was unresponsive and two children, a 3-year-old and a 10-month old child, were located with her. The apartment was covered in bodily fluids, feces and vomit. This included the floors, beds and a smearing on the walls, according to the police affidavit. Soiled diapers were laying in the open and placed in dresser drawers while Pine-Sol cleaner and chlorine bleach were also poured on the floor, police said.  The bathtub was found to have a significant amount of standing water that posed a drowning threat to the children...