A California man has been arrested after his 23-month-old daughter was found to have "toxic levels" of fentanyl in her system when she died, authorities said Thursday. 

Justin Pittman, 22, is charged with homicide and child abuse in the death of his daughter, who was identified by Fox San Francisco as Francesca.

"Fentanyl is an extremely dangerous drug and impacts the lives of many," Livermore Police Chief Jeramy Young said. "Fentanyl use and the illegal distribution of the drug is a nationwide epidemic. This is a tragic loss for the family and our community, and I look forward to justice being served so there is some closure."

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The girl was found unresponsive on Aug. 18 and was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said. 

Pittman was taking care of her on the day she died. He admitted to officers to having a fentanyl addiction, police said. 

"After a thorough investigation and review of the autopsy and toxicology reports, it was determined that the baby had toxic levels of fentanyl in her blood at the time of her death," the police department said.

The Alameda County District Attorney's Office issued an arrest warrant for Pittman. He was taken into custody Wednesday in Martinez, 35 miles northeast of San Francisco. 

There have been four fentanyl-related deaths in Livermore this year, authorities said. 

Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Human Rights Defender and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, speaks virtually during an arria-formula meeting regarding the ongoing protests in Iran, at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on November 2, 2022. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

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UPDATED 3:45 PM PT – Thursday, November 3, 2022

Iran may be on their way out of a United Nations Pro-Women Commission.

Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that the United States wants Iran out of the U.N. Commission on the status of women.

This comes after Iran has been dealing with repeated protests, following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in custody of the so-called “morality police.”

Albania’s Representative to the U.N., Ferit Hoxha, agrees with Harris’s position, saying he wants to hold the Islamist regime accountable.

“We support the mobilization of existing instruments and tools as well as the creation of a new independent and impartial investigative mechanism to hold the Iranian regime accountable for its gross violation of human rights and end impunity,” said Hoxha. “In this respect we cannot contemplate the membership of Iran at the Commission on the Status of Women and support the call to remove Iran from that body.”

Iran’s four-year term on the commission began back in March.