HAGER HILL, Ky. — The parents of three small children were arrested Monday evening, after one of the children tested positive for drugs.

Police were called to a residence on Jenny’s Creek Road, after social workers obtained paperwork to have the children removed from the home, after the youngest child, a 2-year-old, tested positive for a “lethal amount” of meth, as well as lesser amounts of cocaine and amphetamine.

The parents — identified as Brandon Patrick, 25, and Toni Brashay Short, 27, both of Hager Hill — reportedly told police they did not know how the children came in contact with the drugs. Both suggested the drugs must have come from the children’s maternal grandfather, who the children had stayed with until he was recently arrested.

The parents were arrested and charged with first-degree child abuse, first-degree wanton endangerment and endangering the welfare of a minor. They are being held in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center on $10,000 cash bonds.