By Michael Schwanke KWCH 12 Eyewitness News KWCH 12 Eyewitness News

8:39 p.m. CDT, March 18, 2013
(WICHITA, Kan.)—

A three-year-old girl is in protective custody after police found her and two adults asleep in a car in the Chuck E. Cheese's parking lot Sunday afternoon.

Police say the two adults were high on heroin.

Wichita police say a concerned citizen called them at around 4:15 Sunday afternoon.

When police showed up, they found two adults, 31 and 22, and a three-year-old girl, asleep in the car.

The officer woke them up and found that the adults had injected heroin, which they had used while the little girl was in the car with them.

“It's really sad, but it's not so uncommon,” says Pam McLucas, a drug and alcohol counselor with the Wichita Children’s Home.

She says what makes this case different is that it happened in a busy parking lot.

“It's a good thing that was found out...a lot of times we don't know,” says McLucas.

Other counselors say the same thing.

“I think it happens more than we find,” says Harold Casey, CEO of The Substance Abuse Center of Kansas.

Casey says heroin abuse is a growing problem.

“It's certainly a problem in the community. It's certainly on the rise...there are more people going into treatment.”

Casey says more adolescents are using heroin.

The two adults in the Chuck E. Cheese incident were arrested. They have not been formally charged.

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