NBC Philadelphia reports: A mother was arrested after her 4-year-old
daughter brought over 200 bags of heroin to school and passed them out to other
children at a local daycare, thinking they were candy, police say.
Delaware State Troopers
and medics were called to the Hickory Tree Child Care Center on Hickory Tree
Lane in Selbyville Monday around 11:45 a.m.
Staff at the daycare told
police they spotted some children with small bags of an unknown substance.
The white powdery
substance inside the bags was removed by the teachers and taken to the
Selbyville Police Department.
Investigators determined
the substance was heroin.
According to
investigators, a 4-year-old girl unknowingly brought the bags of heroin to the
daycare inside a backpack that her mother, identified as 30-year-old Ashley
Tull, gave her.
Police said Tull gave her
daughter the bag after her other backpack was ruined by a family pet.
The girl passed the
packets of heroin to her classmates, believing they were candy, according to
investigators.
Police said 249 bags of
heroin weighing 3.735 grams were found inside the backpack.
Several children who came
in contact with the unopened bags were taken to local hospitals as a
precaution.
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