EAST BUTLER — Criminal charges are being considered against a woman who apparently overdosed on heroin last week while more than seven months pregnant, prosecutors said.

The likely charge, aggravated assault of an unborn child, has never been filed in Butler County, according to District Attorney Richard Goldinger.

But any charges against 30-year-old Kasey R. Dischman could be added or amended, investigators said, depending on the fate of the baby girl — who was delivered by emergency caesarean section Saturday.

“The baby's in bad shape,” police Lt. Eric Hermick said Tuesday. “The baby's in severe condition.”

Dischman remains at a Pittsburgh hospital and authorities say they were advised that she could be released soon. But she won't be going free.

Hermick said there's a probation detainer already filed against her. Police also could have in hand an arrest warrant in the felony assault case against her then fetus.

“We have some medical opinion that the child's condition is due to (Dischman's) opioid abuse,” Goldinger said.

He said a decision on charging her could come as early as today.

“It goes to the opioid epidemic,” Hermick said of the case. “It's so severe it doesn't stop a mother 30-plus weeks pregnant from overdosing.”

Police and emergency crews found Dischman unresponsive at her home on Tenth Street in East Butler after her live-in boyfriend called authorities for help about 12:25 a.m. Friday.

She was taken by ambulance to Butler Memorial Hospital. On the way, police said she went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated.

Dischman eventually was transferred to Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh and was placed on a ventilator. She was weaned off the respirator and on Saturday was taken to UPMC Magee-Women's Hospital in Pittsburgh, where she gave birth by C-section.

Police on Tuesday served a search warrant at the hospital for Dischman's medical records.

Investigators also spoke to Dischman there. She admitted shooting heroin Friday, police said.

They previously got a search warrant for her home, in the wake of the suspected opioid overdose and because of her pregnancy. Troopers found a hypodermic needle but no other contraband.

Also at the home was Dischman's boyfriend and her 6-year-old child.

Police subsequently arrested the boyfriend, who is on state parole, after he tested positive for “multiple drugs,” Hermick said.

He is being held at the State Correctional Institution in Mercer County.

The Butler County Children and Youth Services agency also was notified and eventually placed the 6-year-old with a member of Dischman's family.

Police, led by Hermick, apparently pushed for criminal charges against Dischman. He acknowledged pregnant women rarely face charges for drug use.

“I recommended we contact the (district attorney's) office,” Hermick said. “They were very supportive.”

Goldinger said any charges against Dischman would be based on the state's Crimes Against the Unborn Child Act, a law enacted in 1997 that granted — for the first time in Pennsylvania — specific criminal protections to fetuses.

Any initial charge in the case, police said, could be amended to involuntary manslaughter should the baby die.

Dischman already has an extensive criminal record, which includes two felony convictions. Among her convictions are five for misdemeanor possession of drugs or drug paraphernalia.

Most recently, court records and officials said, she was released from the Butler County Prison on June 15 after serving a six-month stint for felony shoplifting.