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An Alabama family is seeking answers after their four-year-old daughter came home from school with a nearly fatal blood alcohol content level.
According to AL.com, Albert and Mary Singleton found their daughter was "limp like a noodle" when they went to pick her up from Collins Rhodes Elementary School in Prichard on April 28. The girl had to be carried out to her parents as she was slipping into unconsciousness.
The school allegedly didn't provide an explanation for the four-year-old's condition.
“So, my wife was handling everything, and they was telling her that [the child] had been in the nurse’s office, and they didn’t know what was wrong with her, but she couldn’t walk, she couldn’t stand,” Albert said. “She was getting deeper and deeper into whatever was going on and shortly after that they told us to proceed to the closest emergency room with her.”
The child was taken to an emergency room before being transferred to the ICU at Children's and Women's Hospital in Mobile.
Several tests determined that the four-year-old girl had a blood alcohol content level of .286 from ingesting ethanol. A .300 diagnosis can potentially lead to life-threatening issues.
Albert said his daughter was unresponsive from the 3 p.m. pick-up from school until 3 a.m. the next morning. She was released from the hospital on April 30 and has since been slowly progressing.
The family is still seeking answers on how their daughter obtained ethanol and ingested a nearly fatal amount at school. The Prichard Police Department is working with the Mobile County Sheriff's Office and the Mobile County District Attorney's Office on an investigation into the incident.
“The whole ordeal has been exhausting,“ Albert said.
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