11 months ago
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- The owner of an Arkansas daycare center where 10 children were sickened after they were mistakenly given windshield wiper fluid has surrendered her state license to child welfare investigators.
Hospital officials say a staffer mistakenly put the blue liquid in the refrigerator after shopping and later served it, thinking it was Kool-Aid. Doctors estimate the children, ages 2 to 7, drank about an ounce of the fluid.
One child remains hospitalized.
A spokeswoman for Arkansas' Department of Human Services descibes the daycare operator as "upset" and worried about the children. She told investigators the incident was "just a horrible mistake."
A toxicologist says the "take-home message is not to have these products in the kitchen or where you're doing any kind of food preparation."
