Infant died of starvation after parents' overdose deaths

Jason Chambers, 27, and Chelsea Cardaro, 19, died of of drug overdoses. Their baby Summer died days later of starvation and dehydration.

A coroner says a 5-month-old Pennsylvania girl starved to death in her bassinet after her parents died of drug overdoses.

The Cambria County coroner's office said autopsy and toxicology reports confirmed that Summer Chambers died of dehydration and starvation in the home in Kernville, about 100km east of Pittsburgh, a few days before Christmas.

Coroner Jeff Lees called the case "heart-wrenching" and ruled the infant's death homicide due to parental neglect.

Lees says toxicology tests indicate that 27-year-old Jaron Chambers and 19-year-old Chelsea Cordaro died of acute fentanyl overdoses. Lees says the woman had four times the lethal range of the drug and the man had two times the lethal range.

Lees says the parents died on or about December 15 and the child probably on December 19 or December 20. The bodies were found December 22.