7 Kids, Including a Toddler, Overdose on Sleeping Pills Handed Out by 7-Year-Old, Cops Say

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Seven children under the age of 8 have been hospitalized in Virginia after one of them handed out sleeping pills to the other kids, police say.

Shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday night, the second mother left the kids to run to the corner store, authorities say. When she returned home, she noticed the children “weren’t acting right,” police say.

When the woman noticed an empty prescription pill bottle, she called 911.

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Investigators have not confirmed if there was another man in the house at the time.

source: people.com