Delaware Mom Ashley Tull Held After Child Brings Heroin To Daycare

Delaware authorities say they have arrested the mother of a four-year-old girl who unknowingly brought heroin to a daycare center and started to hand it out to classmates.

According to Delaware State Police, the child thought she was giving out candy. She had the heroin in a backpack her mother had allegedly given her.

Employees at the Hickory Tree Child Care Center in Selbyville alerted police and medical personnel after seeing some of the children with small bags of an unknown substance.

It was tested at the police station and tued out to be heroin.

Ashley Tull, 30, is not allowed to contact her three children

The mother, Ashley Tull, 30, was charged with drug offences and endangering the welfare of a child.

The backpack contained 249 bags of heroin weighing 3.7g.

Police said the girl's backpack contained 249 bags of heroin

Tull, who also has a nine-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, is not allowed to contact the children, who are in custody of a relative.

Several children who had come into contact with the bags, which were unopened, were taken to hospital as a precaution.

They were later released.