Parents of 4-year-old with ethanol in her system looking for answers
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Her parents discovered after picking their daughter, Algeria, up from school.
The parents told News 5 they still aren't sure exactly what she drank or how she got hold of it.
They said all they knew was their daughter was OK when they dropped her off, and she was not OK when they picked her up.
'How is this even possible?' Algeria's father, Albert Singleton, asked. 'Where was the supervision?'
Singleton and his wife were in the school pickup line at Collins-Rhodes Elementary School last Monday when their daughter was brought out to them unresponsive.
'The school teachers came out to the van with her, but they was carrying her instead of her walking,' Singleton said. 'The nurse, she broke it down as to where she probably felt like it was like an ear infection. But it was nothing of that nature.'
Singleton said the school didn't call him or his wife. They found out when they arrived at the school's normal dismissal time.
Algeria's parents immediately took her to a hospital, and from there, she was transferred to another hospital.
'One of the nurses turned around saying like, 'Hey, just so y'all know, while being transferred, she threw up one time on the ambulance ride,'' Singleton said. 'She said, and that's the blanket right over there, if you smell it, it don't smell like vomit. That's the smell of some type of disinfectant cleaner or something.'
The test results only added to their confusion.
'They finally came into the room and told us that ethanol was found in the system,' said Singleton. 'I was perplexed.'
Ethanol is in alcoholic beverages, cleaning products and fuel.
Algeria spent two nights in the hospital but is now back home and feeling better.
The family said they still want answers.
'We feel betrayed,' Singleton said. 'Because of the way the whole situation was handled. Bad. You know, and they know us personally, you know, because our other kids been going there before her, and they could have did a better reach out.'
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News 5 reached out to the Mobile County Public School System spokesperson, who said the school system is investigating the allegation.
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