Dad in bitter divorce injected 4-year-old son with heroin to get back at mom

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A Redmond (Washington state) man has been accused of injecting his 4-year-old son with heroin and is charged with attempted first-degree murder in a crime prosecutors believe was carried out to get back at a spouse in a bitter divorce.

"Our theory is that he did this so that his ex-wife would find the boy and the father together because she was scheduled to come pick him up, and that is exactly what happened," King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg tells KIRO Radio's Dori Monson.

Court documents say the mother found her ex-husband, Eric Emil Lehtinen, 37, and their 4-year-old son in bed. She found vomit at Lehtinen's mouth and a syringe on her son's chest.

After attempting to wake her son and finding he was unresponsive, court documents say the mother, then hysterical, called 911. The boy was taken to Seattle Children's, and his father to a local hospital.

Medical staff at the hospital found puncture wounds on the 4-year-old's neck and buttocks, indicating needle sticks, court documents say. The hospital reportedly found evidence of not only heroin in his blood, but also ketamine, morphine, codeine, and other drugs.

"I've been a prosecutor for almost 30 years now and every time you think you've seen it all, you haven't," says Satterberg of the shocking case.