Sad Situation: Father Tells His 13-Year-Old Son To Sleep It Off Before He Died With Fentanyl In His System After Taking Drugs Together!

A 36-year-old #Houston father is being held on a $150,000 bond after his son’s autopsy revealed he had drugs in his system at the time of his death.

Emilio Dominguez was charged with injury to a child by omission and arrested on Wednesday.

On Aug. 23, authorities say Emilio Dominguez and his 13-year-old son, Eli Dominguez, took drugs together. A younger child in the home at the time reported to police seeing the father give their sibling a pill.

After taking the drugs, the teen started struggling to breathe.

“Someone in the house said, ‘Hey, I want you to try to take care of this kid. He doesn’t seem to be doing well,’ and he didn’t,” Edward Appelbaum — an assistant district attorney in the child fatality division — said. “(The father) said to sleep it off, and the next morning, that’s when he called 911, and (the son) was subsequently pronounced dead.”

Emilio Dominguez’s lack of action led to his charge of injury to a child by omission. His charge may be upgraded as investigators learn more.