Child swallows cocaine after dad "allegedly" tells son that drugs were "candy" (Newark, New Jersey)

Honestlly, the accusations against dad SHAHEED WRIGHT? I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/child_accidentally_swallows_co.html

Child swallows cocaine after Newark dad allegedly tells son that drugs were "candy"
by James Queally/The Star-Ledger
Friday September 18, 2009, 11:47 PM

NEWARK - Four children were rushed from the Clinton Avenue Daycare Center to Beth Israel Hospital in Newark this morning when a teacher discovered the piece of candy in the child's mouth was actually cocaine, police said.

The dangerous miscue occurred because the child's father, Shaheed Wright, 25 of East Orange, told his son the drugs were candy after he hid several bags of cocaine in his son's jacket following an alleged run-in with Newark police, according to city police spokesman Detective Todd McClendon.

Wright was arrested at his South Munn Avenue residence this afternoon and charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, possession of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.

The children, identified as one girl and three boys, were all four years of age. A teacher at the daycare center had the children taken to Beth Israel around 9:30 a.m. when they noticed the girl had a foreign object in her mouth, which was later identified as a small plastic bag filled with cocaine, McClendon said.

Wright's son later told police that his father gave him the cocaine and told him the bags were actually "packets of candy," according to McClendon. Friday morning, when classmates asked the young boy for candy, he unknowingly distributed the cocaine to his friends.

Hospital tests indicated that only one of the children actually swallowed the cocaine, according to McClendon. That child was treated and released on Friday.

McClendon said the Division of Youth and Family Services is expected to conduct a separate investigation into the incident.