Timothy Child

MEXICO — A Dixfield man remained jailed Wednesday, two days after he was charged with endangering the welfare of a 9-month-old girl who suffered a drug overdose at her home on Roxbury Road. 

Timothy Child, 28, of 41 Pine St. remained at the Oxford County Jail in Paris on charges of endangering the welfare of a child, drug trafficking and violating conditions of release. 

Child was arrested Monday afternoon after police and rescue crews went to the home at 51 Roxbury Road and found the infant unconscious, having difficulty breathing and her skin bluish. 

The girl was taken to Rumford Hospital where she was treated with numerous doses of Narcan, which reverses an opioid overdose. She also tested positive for cocaine and marijuana, according to a court affidavit. 

According to the court document, Child was at the Mexico home with a woman and two of their children when the overdose occurred.  

The 9-month-old had been laying with Child on a couch, according to the court document. Shortly after Child got up, the infant’s mother heard what sounded like the child gasping for air. When she rushed to the sofa, she found the girl’s head was bent forward and her lips were turning blue. 

The woman gave the child rescue breaths and rubbed her chest in an attempt to revive her, according to the affidavit, prepared by Oxford County Sheriff’s Cpl. Johsua Aylward. 

When Child came back into the room, according to the document, he suggested the baby needed Narcan. The girl’s mother called 911. 

Police investigating the matter were ultimately led to a medicine bottle with a “large amount of white powder substance in it,” according the court document. The substance later proved to be cocaine. 

In the court affidavit, it was suggested that the infant may have come in contact with drug residue on Child’s face as the two lay on the couch. 

One of the officers who first arrived at the home reported that Child appeared to be on drugs when he was first approached. 

“His eyes were droopy, his skin was pale, his pupils were pinpoint and he was very fidgety,” the officer wrote. “I noticed that his nose was running and had mucus/white secretions visible, which I know from my training education and experience to be indicative of someone snorting illegal drugs.” 

Child has a drug history dating back to 2013. In October of that year, he was charged with trafficking in drugs and possession of oxycodone. The trafficking charge was dismissed but Child was sentenced on the possession charge to four months in jail and a $400 fine. 

Child had later convictions, in 2017, for criminal mischief and obstructing the report of a crime.  

He was charged with domestic assault in 2022 and domestic terrorizing in 2023, but those charges were ultimately dropped in plea arrangements during which Child admitted to violating conditions of release — a charge for which he has been arrested numerous times in recent years. 

On Tuesday, Child’s bail was set at $75,000 cash, although because of previous bail violations, he was being held without the possibility of bail. Should that change at a later court hearing, conditions were set that Child have no contact with the two children or their mother. Bail conditions also prohibit him from possessing drugs and alcohol and to submit to random drug testing. 

There was no further information about the condition of the 9-month-old, who was taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland.