"Police: 4-year-old took heroin to day care" October 08, 2014
SELBYVILLE, Del. — A 4-year-old girl mistakenly took hundreds of packets of heroin to her day-care center and began passing it out to classmates, thinking it was candy, Delaware State Police said Tuesday.
Several children who received the packets Monday morning went to the hospital as a precaution, police said. But no packets were opened, and all of the children were released after being examined.
Police say the child unknowingly brought the heroin to the center when her mother gave her a different backpack because the girl’s regular backpack had been ruined by the family pet. Police say the backpack contained nearly 250 packets of heroin, totaling nearly 4 grams, all labeled ‘‘Slam.’’
The girl’s mother, Ashley Tull, 30, of Selbyville, was charged with three counts of child endangerment and maintaining a drug property. She was arraigned Monday in Justice of the Peace Court and released on $6,000 bond.
In a phone interview Tuesday, a woman who identified herself as Tull’s sister, Alicia Tull, said her sister had no idea that heroin was in the backpack and would not have sent her daughter to school with the backpack if she had known. She said that Ashley Tull does not use or deal drugs and that she was taken advantage of by an individual who stored the drugs in Tull’s home without her knowledge.
As part of her release, Tull was ordered not to have any contact with her children, who are in the custody of a relative, according to police.
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