4-year-old dishes out heroin at daycare thinking it's candy [VIDEO]

A 4-year-old girl thought she was doing a great thing when she took a big bag of "candy" to give out to her friends at daycare. Unfortunately, she unknowingly took hundreds of packets of heroin, according to Delaware State Police said.

Ashley Tull, 30, of Selbyville was charged with drug possession and endangering the welfare of a child after her daughter brought the drugs to the Hickory Tree Child Care Center on Monday morning, Delaware State Police said in a statement on their Facebook page.

Director and owner/operator Alisa Johnson says Monday was "a normal morning." A classroom teacher noticed the little girl was passing something out to other children. "In the bag, it looked like a tattoo," Johnson said.

"I put it in a Food Lion bag and took it to the Selbyville police," Johnson said. "I said to them, 'can you tell me what this is?' "

They recognized it as heroin right away, she said. "You wouldn't have known. It looked like sugar."

Several of the children who received the small, unopened bags were taken to area hospitals as a precaution, and were later released, police said. They were all released the same day, Fournier told The News Journal.

Tull was released from jail after posting $6,000 bond, police said. She has been barred from coming into contact with her 4-year-old, or her two other children, aged 9 and 11.

The 4-year-old backpack contained a total of 249 packets of heroin, or 3.735 grams, according to state police.