Girl, 7, brings cocaine to school, shares with classmates..

Grimmlok · March 1st, 2006, 04:30 PM

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PHILADELPHIA -- Police have confirmed that a white substance found in 18 bags brought to a southwest Philadelphia school by a 7-year-old girl is cocaine.

Patterson Elementary School officials said that plastic bags of cocaine were found inside a second-grade classroom and that some of the students ate the drugs.

Parents want to know if school officials are handling the situation properly.

At least one child ingested some of the drugs and another child was taken to a hospital late Tuesday afternoon to be checked out.

"I was upset because they didn't call me and tell me what was going on," said Shinette Brown, a parent of one of the students affected.

"My daughter is scared to come to school," said Catalina Starling, a mother of one of the students in the classroom.

Both parents said that the drugs were passed around the classroom.

"I ate it. I asked, 'What is it?' I spit it out and I was like, 'What is it?'" said Shaniya Brown, 7.

"I took her to the hospital because she said when they were in there, when she took it, she started shaking and she couldn't stop shaking," a student's mother said.

Starling's daughter, Tracey, said that she passed up the bag given to her by a classmate.

"She said that she got it from the girl ... and then she stuck one in my book bag," Tracey Starling said.

Parents told NBC 10 News that officials at the school had some of the second-graders write out incident statements about what happened without their parents present .

"They know me at the school, that's why I don't understand why they even took a statement without my knowledge," Catalina Starling said.

Late Tuesday, school officials sent letters home to parents telling them that pink bags with a powder-like statement from a student and that police were notified. However, Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson said that his department was not notified until 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.

School officials have not made an official statement, but told NBC 10 News that they are working on a timeline on how events transpired.

Parents told NBC 10 News that they want to know why an ambulance was not called to the school when the children ate the powder.

Copyright 2006 by NBC10.com.

Grimmlok · March 1st, 2006, 04:37 PM

Gawd, all I had was glue huffing.. some people are just so fabulous.

FierceKiten · March 1st, 2006, 04:45 PM

I take it that this Shinette didnt go to any Beverly Hills, otherwise she wouldnt have gotten caught.

Luna · March 1st, 2006, 05:22 PM

Coke is so yester year. I remember it well

mklady · March 1st, 2006, 11:03 PM

So, this is what I missed on the news at my grandparents today. The things going on in Philly are ridiculous. Every week they talk about the crime rate being up, somebody's been shot, somebody else is missing and there's always something horrible about kids. And this is just on Wednesday!

LynnieD · March 1st, 2006, 11:08 PM

And you know whats coming next right?? Lawsuits lawsuits lawsuits!! The school district will be sued to high hell within the next 2 weeks I guarantee it! Little Shinette will be able to go out and buy her own stash real soon!

Laurent · March 1st, 2006, 11:22 PM

Ah, the good 'ol days when kids huddled in the corner sniffing contraband Sharpies.

A*O · March 2nd, 2006, 12:29 AM

Ummmmmmmm Shinette is the mother - the daughter is probably called Tarquishayla or Shanq'aacua (these are real names I've seen on Maury's fabulous "Which Of These 34 Men Is The Babydaddy" shows

Glasgow53 · March 2nd, 2006, 10:16 AM

In my day, all we had to sniff were mimiograph sheets. Anyone else remember those?

Algernon · March 2nd, 2006, 12:33 PM

God, the parents who leave drugs laying around like this ought to have their children taken away forever.

Just last week, a kid at a school in my neighborhood brought a bag full of ecstacy to school. First grader. At one point the pills were in a candy dish on the teacher's desk. A few kids tried eating them and then spit them out, some went to the hospital.

WTH????

buttmunch · March 2nd, 2006, 12:47 PM

Christ, at seven we were only making spit balls out of strawberry flavored rolling paper. Where was this kid when I was growing up.

Sojiita · March 2nd, 2006, 01:56 PM

I can't even imagine this kind of thing..passing out bags of coke and pills in a candy dish on the teacher's desk?..Just impossible for me to really comprehend. What the hell is going on in the world?

buttmunch · March 3rd, 2006, 02:18 AM

The inmates are running the asylum, that's whats wrong.