A grandmother is facing charges after she brought nine bags of heroin with her while she baby-sat her grandson, who then took her stash to school.
Pauline Bilinski-Munion, 56, from Modena in Chester County, Pa., first exposed the children to the deadly bags of the drug while baby-sitting her 7-year-old grandson and a 1-year-old baby.
Police said she left her heroin stash out in the open inside her home while she was watching them.
But her inquisitive grandson took the bags to school before she had even realized they were gone. Police said she “lost track of the heroin,” CBS Philly reports.
The boy, who attends Caln Elementary School in Thorndale, Pa., showed the bags to a classmate and gave him one of them, before teachers discovered he had the drugs in his pockets.
Each bag was stamped “Victoria’s Secret,” the prosecutor’s office said.
Police say the boy lied at first and said he found the drugs in the schoolyard.
He later confessed and told investigators that the drugs came from his home.
The first-grader said he found the bags of heroin “on the floor by the washing machine.”
Another child’s mother later came forward and claimed she had discovered a bag of heroin with the same “Victoria’s Secret” wording on her 7-year-old son, as they were walking in a nearby mall, authorities said.
Chester County, Pa., District Attorney Tom Hogan expressed outrage over any child bringing a drug as potent as heroin into an elementary school, CNN reports.
“Any exposure to heroin for a young child is likely to result in death,” Hogan said in a statement.
“The (grandmother) is lucky that she was not responsible for the death of her own grandson or somebody else’s child.”
Bilinski-Munion was facing child endangerment and drug charges. She is a “known heroin user,” according to police.
She was in custody at Chester County Prison until she could be released on bail after it was set at $25,000.
This article originally appeared on News.com.au.