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Nov 12, 2009 5:57 pm US/Central
Baby At Mpls. Daycare Sucked On Ball Of Cocaine
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It happened last Friday morning at the AGAPE Child Development Center at 1915 West Broadway Ave.
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Employees at a Minneapolis daycare center are taking some extra precautions after a small child found a ball of crack cocaine on the floor.
It happened last Friday morning at the AGAPE Child Development Center at 1915 West Broadway Ave.
The child was checked out at the hospital and is doing fine. But the question remains: who dropped the drugs?
Staff members were on the floor, playing with the children when someone noticed that a 13-month-old boy had something unusual in his mouth.
"When I found out it was crack or cocaine then I was really like, 'Oh my God, just one drop in a baby's mouth could cause lord knows what damage," said AGAPE Child Development Centers CEO Dr. Diane Thibodeaux.
The cocaine was wrapped in some sort of plastic covering or cellophane wrap. It was on the floor in the infant room and the little boy was sucking on it.
The seal of the wrap had not been broken, so the child probably did not lick any of the drugs. He was rushed to the hospital as a precaution however.
"We're talking about an amount, about possibly the size of maybe a couple of jelly beans," said Jesse Garcia of Minneapolis Police.
The room was cleaned and scrubbed from top to bottom.
"I emptied out the room thoroughly and I had everybody with vacuums and hoses and Shopvacs getting in the corners. Anything that looked like it should be sucked up, suck it up," Thibodeaux said.
There were no charges because there is no way to know who the drugs belonged to, but only a limited number of people are allowed to come in the building.
"No one can drop a baby or pick a baby up without identification, so there's no way they could have just walked in without us knowing who they were," Thibodeaux said.
"It's probably one of the parents that came in, who was dropping off their kids and might have dropped it," Garcia said.
The daycare center is now taking some extra precautions: random drug testing for staff and more security cameras all over the building.
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