Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - "That tastes funny," said the children when they tasted the strange white powder that their classmate had given them. A teacher alerted the police shortly afterwards.

According to a report in the British newspaper Mirror, a four-year-old girl gave her classmates cocaine to taste without knowing it. She thought she was just carrying sherbet in small bags and just wanted to be nice to her friends in class.

During a search of the classroom, 16 packets were found, which the girl had distributed to her classmates. The police also found six more bags in her school backpack and nine under the chair she was sitting on.

Eight drug bags had already been opened by the children and some of the contents "eaten". When the police questioned the little girl, she said that her father gave her the packets but did not tell her what the contents were.

While the teacher was still alerting the police, the four-year-old's father suddenly appeared. He snatched one of the packages from the girl's hand and fled before the law enforcement officers arrived.

The girl was then picked up from school by her uncle.

However, he was arrested by the police on the spot. All the children were taken to a nearby hospital and examined. Two drug tests showed inconclusive results, the others all failed to show any reaction to the drug. The following night, the police and the military raided a house, where officers found another 300 bags of cocaine.

At the same time, a 21-year-old man was arrested at the scene. He confessed to selling the drugs. The girl's father has not yet been traced.