4-year-old took 250 packs of heroin to day care

Four-year-old took hundreds
of packets of heroin to day
care
Delaware girl’s mother, Ashley Tull,
charged with three counts of child
endangerment and maintaining a drug
property
Police say the girl unknowingly brought the
heroin when her mother gave her a different
backpack. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP Image
Delaware US crime Drugs
Associated Press in Selbyville, Delaware
Tuesday 7 October 2014 10.25 EDT
A four-year-old girl took hundreds of
packets of heroin to her day-care center
and began passing it out, thinking it was
candy, Delaware state police said.
Several children who received the
packets on Monday morning went to
hospital as a precaution, police said, but
none of the packets were opened and all
kids were released after being examined.
The girl’s mother, 30-year-old Ashley
Tull, of Selbyville, was charged with
three counts of child endangerment and
maintaining a drug property. She was
arraigned Monday and released on $6,000
bond. She did not immediately return a
call left at a home listing on Tuesday.
The child endangerment counts relate to
Tull’s three children, who are aged
between four and 11. As part of her
release, Tull was ordered not to have any
contact with her children, who are now
in the custody of a relative, according to
police.
Police say the girl 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, totalling nearly four
grams, all labeled “Slam”.
Delaware state police spokesman Master
Cpl Gary Fournier told the News Journal
of Wilmington he believes the day-care
center, the Hickory Tree Child Care
Center in Selbyville, handled the
situation properly, and notified police
immediately when it occurred.
A call to the center was not immediately
returned on Tuesday morning.
Police say the investigation is ongoing.