导读:近日美国华盛顿一对年轻夫妇被指控给自己三个年幼的孩子注射海洛因，其原因是想让他们“睡觉”。
Police say Ashlee Hutt and Mac Leroy McIver were found living with three children, aged six, four and two, among rat droppings, drug needles and heroin.
据警方表示，阿什莉·赫特和麦克·勒罗伊·麦基弗共育有三个孩子（分别是6岁、4岁和2岁），他们终日生活在老鼠屎、毒品注射针头和海洛因之间。
Ms Hutt appeared in court on Monday and faces child endangerment charges. Mr McIver faces similar charges.
本周一阿什莉·赫特出现在法庭，她面临着危害儿童的指控，而麦克·勒罗伊·麦基弗也面临着同样的指控。
The three children were removed from the home last November.
去年十一月，这三名孩子就从那个家中被接走了。
The couple deny the charges against them.
这对夫妇否认了对他们提起的指控。
Pierce County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Ed Troyer told The Washington Post: "The kids lived in deplorable conditions. It wasn’t a good living situation even without the issue of heroin."
皮尔斯县警局发言人埃德·特罗耶对《华盛顿邮报》透露说：“孩子们曾经生活在及其恶劣的环境之下。即使撇开海洛因的问题不论，那儿也谈不上是一个好的居住环境。”
According to court documents, the six-year-old told investigators the couple gave him "feel good medicine" which he described "as white powder which was mixed with water" and injected with needles.
根据法庭文件显示，那名6岁的孩子对调查员说他的父母给了他一种让他“感觉很好的药物”，据孩子描述那药物是“白色的粉末，和水混在一起”，然后用针头注射到身体里。
He said after they were injected the three children would go to sleep.
据他表示，在打了针之后，三个孩子就会睡过去。
Two of the children tested positive for the drug, and puncture marks and bruising, consistent with needle injections were also found on the children’s bodies, according to reports.
据报道，两个孩子的毒品检测呈阳性，还在身上发现了刺伤和擦伤，孩子们身上还发现了另外一些符合针头注射毒品的痕迹。
Both Ms Hutt and Mr McIver have pleaded not guilty to the charges, though they both admitted to being heroin users.
阿什莉·赫特和麦克·勒罗伊·麦基弗都拒不认罪，但是两人都承认自己确实吸食海洛因。
In September, Ohio police released a graphic photo of a couple overdosing on heroin with a boy in the car to raise awareness of the state’s heroin problem.
今年9月，俄亥俄州警方用一张照片来提醒人们注意美国的海洛因问题，图片中一对夫妇吸食了过量的海洛因在车里昏了过去，而他们的儿子还在一旁看着。
The US is in the throes of a heroin and opioid epidemic - drug overdose has become the leading cause of accidental death, overtaking traffic accidents.
美国深受海洛因和阿片类毒品的困扰--毒品吸食过量已经成为了引起意外死亡和超车类交通事故的主要原因。
