Police in Millis, Massachusetts, are urging parents to check their children’s Halloween candy after trick-or-treaters received packages of laxatives Saturday night.
Police in Millis are urging parents to check
their kids' Halloween candy after a potentially dangerous mix-up.
Several kids received packages of laxatives while trick-or-treating,
and one child consumed it.
Boston 25's Christine McCarthy spoke
to the resident that made that mistake.
A resident of this house where laxatives were handed out on Halloween
tells us it was a big mistake and one they feel terrible about.
Added a little tweak to the Halloween, that's for sure.
After a fun night of trick-or-treating, Paul Nato's kids and their
friends headed back to their Millis home to check out their candy.
They just started going through it and trading it all and going back
and forth and a couple of them found little like chewy gum.
Gum packages in their bags.
That's what they thought it was gum?
Yeah, yeah.
It looked just like candy to the kids.
But this silver package contains a laxative called Mirafast.
Without realizing, one of the NATO girl's friends,
a 10-year-old, had eaten one
around the time a neighbor called to alert them.
We went to all the kids to figure out, you know, did anyone have it?
Let's look through all our bags.
And she's like, I think I ate it.
And we described what it was.
She's like, yeah, I definitely ate it,
so we went through and found it in the rest of the kids' bags.
Mom called police who tracked the source
of the Mirafast to a May Road home
where a resident told us off-camera her mother picked up
the 68-year-old father's laxatives,
mistaking them for candy,
and mixed them in the bowl of assorted candies before handing them out.
The resident told Boston 25 News she's been thinking about it all day
and feels really sorry.
She discovered it at the moment police came as well.
Luckily, she's okay. No issues.
She slept through the night, so no big deal,
but just kind of scary to see.
Millis Police urged parents of kids
who trick-or-treated in this neighborhood to examine their candy.
I get that stuff happens. I mean,
at least it's not something worse, you know.
Millis Police confirmed this was accidental,
and the child is being monitored by her parents.
On scene in Millis, Christine McCarthy
for your local station, Boston 25 News.
