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From Local6 News:

Police in Troy want to know why a 4-year-old girl tested positive for cocaine.

A test showed the drug in the urine of the preschooler after her teacher became suspicious when she saw the girl and her Head Start classmates playing with small balloons, police said.

The children behaved strangely when asked who brought the balloons to class, according to police. Since the children touched the balloons with their mouths, the teacher called in a health monitor, who then noticed the girl's vital signs were elevated.

The girl and four other preschoolers who handled the balloons were taken to a hospital for drug tests. Police said the school notified the parents immediately and the parents gave hospital workers permission to test their children.

Only the 4-year-old girl's test came back positive, police said.

Tests on the balloons showed they weren't tainted with cocaine, but state crime-lab workers are double-checking to make sure those results are correct.

This is certainly an odd case. I've seen instances where young children have tested positive for drugs before, usually because they had gotten into their parent's stash. The balloons mentioned in the article are strange. Its going to be interesting to see if, after being checked again, they come back positive for cocaine.

What's scary to me is the article makes it seem like this little girl had brought some cocaine to school to share with her friends. Its terrible to think that this poor little girl already knows enough about drugs to want to share them with her friends, but I guess we won't know that for sure until the results come back on the balloons.

If I were the investigator handling this case, I'd be at the child's home right now with a search warrant. The kid didn't purchase the cocaine herself.