Debbie Gratz,California Pre-school Teacher,Arrested For Drugging Toddlers'Cups With Sleeping Pills.

A California preschool teacher needed some help when it came to nap time.  She was a teacher at Morgan Hill, Calif., preschool. She was arrested after the school accused her of slipping sleeping pills into sippy cups of children under the age of  2. Nap time should never be that serious.
“We do not know the quantity, but we believe she was breaking the pill into smaller pieces and putting it into the children’s sippy cups,” Morgan Hill Sgt. of Investigations Troy Hoefling told ABC News.

The school told ABC News it had “terminated” Debbie Gratz, 59, last Friday “for failure to follow Kiddie Academy standards and processes.”

“Ms. Gratz was witnessed adding a substance to the water cups for her classroom of 10 children,” Morgan Hill Kiddie Academy added in a prepared statement. “The cups were confiscated before they came in contact with any children prior to the academy opening for business that day.”

A fellow employee saw Gratz place an unknown substance in the toddler’s sippy cups on Friday and notified school officials, according to Morgan Hill Police – though police apparently weren’t told until Monday.

“They made notifications internally. Unfortunately, the problem with that is not only do we not get on the case right away but we lose precious evidence,” Hoefling told ABC News. “We only found out those cups had been washed out and rinsed.”
Gratz was charged with two counts of child endangerment and released on her own recognizance. She was set to appear in court later this month, police said.

Police said they were notified on Monday, when they arrested Gratz and before serving a search warrant at her home that evening. While the teacher allegedly admitted to the accusations, police said, she had not yet commented on a motive.