Boy Hospitalized On Halloween Night After Looking For Candy

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A boy was hospitalized after fetching candy on Halloween. Braylen Carwell, 5, dressed up and although it was raining, his father Cambray Carwell took him to fetch candy in Arlington, west of his neighborhood in Galion, Ohio.

When they got home that night, the boy took off his costume and complained of feeling bad. The little boy began to lose sensation and movement in an arm and fingers. Taking him to the hospital, tests revealed that he was under the influence of methamphetamines.

"I was putting on my socks and then I started to have chills," the boy told channel 10TV. "I couldn't move my arm or my fingers until they took me to the doctors and I was able to start moving my arm, but not my fingers."

His mother Julia Pence confesses that he was surprised when a urinalysis revealed that the boy had traces of the drug. Her parents believed that Cambray had eaten some toxic candy, but the boy assured that she had not eaten any candy that she collected, she had only put a false vampire denture in her mouth.

“It is your duty to protect children from everything, but you cannot protect them from everything. You just have to be aware and do the best you can,”Pence told channel 10TV.

The parents confessed that they have been in drug rehab. The mother assured that it has been clean for more than three years and the father of the child also. “I tell the truth of what happened to my son. No one in Braylen's family or dad could have drugged the boy,”said Pence.

Galion Police Chief Brian Saterfield told The Washington Post: “We know the boy tested positive for methamphetamine, but we don't know what type he was. The average person who reads the headline will automatically think it is crystal meth, but we don't know if it was an illegal, prescribed drug or what.”

Satersfield adds that the drug Desoxyn (a type of methamphetamine) may be legally prescribed to combat attention deficit, hyperactivity behavior disorders, or obesity.

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Galion Police shared on Facebook a notice for parents who take their children to find candy on Halloween: “Please check out anything other than candy, such as rings, bracelets, and fake dentures. If you suspect something has been altered, please contact our department."