Gumleaf
October 15th, 2007, 05:29 PM
Tuesday Oct 16 06:00 AEST
By ninemsn staff
Three primary school children were rushed to hospital yesterday after chewing up to 10 ecstasy tablets they believed were lollies.
A girl, 11, and two boys, both 10, took the prohibited substances in the playground during lunch break at Windang Public School, south of Wollongong on the NSW south coast, News Limited reports.
The incident follows warnings of a highly toxic batch of amphetamine sold on the streets after police seized a large quantity of the drug on the NSW central coast last week.
The children's heart rates were accelerated by the drug and their vision became blurred when they returned to class.
The young girl was so dizzy she collapsed, hitting her head on a classroom table.
While she was being treated in sick bay, the boys told teachers they had all taken tablets given to them by the girl, who said they were lollies.
Teachers searched the girl's school bag and discovered seven more tablets, believed to be ecstasy.
"It's not good when an (11-year-old) has got access to that and is sharing them around the schools," Senior Constable Phillip Brown from Lake Illawarra Area Command said.
The Year Five students were treated at Shellharbour hospital and later released.
Police will question the girl and her parents today about the incident.
The girl is unlikely to face criminal charges as she believed the ecstasy tablets were lollies, Senior Constable Brown said.
"She's got to know that they're amphetamines (to be charged)," he said.
Meanwhile, police have warned of a batch of ecstasy hitting the streets that features a Chanel or Pacman logo.
This latest batch contains the same cocktail of PDA, or paramethoxyamphetamine, that killed a 20-year-old dance teacher Annabel Catt at a dance part in February, police said.
By ninemsn staff
Three primary school children were rushed to hospital yesterday after chewing up to 10 ecstasy tablets they believed were lollies.
A girl, 11, and two boys, both 10, took the prohibited substances in the playground during lunch break at Windang Public School, south of Wollongong on the NSW south coast, News Limited reports.
The incident follows warnings of a highly toxic batch of amphetamine sold on the streets after police seized a large quantity of the drug on the NSW central coast last week.
The children's heart rates were accelerated by the drug and their vision became blurred when they returned to class.
The young girl was so dizzy she collapsed, hitting her head on a classroom table.
While she was being treated in sick bay, the boys told teachers they had all taken tablets given to them by the girl, who said they were lollies.
Teachers searched the girl's school bag and discovered seven more tablets, believed to be ecstasy.
"It's not good when an (11-year-old) has got access to that and is sharing them around the schools," Senior Constable Phillip Brown from Lake Illawarra Area Command said.
The Year Five students were treated at Shellharbour hospital and later released.
Police will question the girl and her parents today about the incident.
The girl is unlikely to face criminal charges as she believed the ecstasy tablets were lollies, Senior Constable Brown said.
"She's got to know that they're amphetamines (to be charged)," he said.
Meanwhile, police have warned of a batch of ecstasy hitting the streets that features a Chanel or Pacman logo.
This latest batch contains the same cocktail of PDA, or paramethoxyamphetamine, that killed a 20-year-old dance teacher Annabel Catt at a dance part in February, police said.