Grey’s Anatomy actors Scott and Marika Foley sue Connecticut school and bus company after their son and friend ate a bag of candy laced with THC

Grey’s Anatomy actors Scott and Marika Foley are suing Westport Public Schools in Connecticut after their son ate TCH-laced candy that was found on a school bus.

According to the lawsuit, which was filed earlier this month in Stamford Superior Court, the chocolate candy her son and another child consumed in December 2022 was laced with Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical in cannabis that makes get consumers high.

The Foleys and another mother – Elizabeth Carpenter – who is also listed as a plaintiff, say the students had to be treated at an urgent care facility in Westport and Norwalk Hospital for an illness caused by cannabis chocolate.

Another student at Long Lots Elementary in Westport found the bag containing what appeared to be regular candy on the bus and gave it to the two students who fell ill, the lawsuit alleges.

The two children complained to the babysitter, about an hour after consuming the fancy candy, left on the bus by a high school student, that they were feeling confused and dizzy.

The carer was worried because the children had ‘eaten something they shouldn’t have eaten’.

When the Foleys returned home, they said they noticed their son’s friend had “lost all the color in her face” and had sunken eyes with “dark circles.”

They described their own son as looking “unhealthy” and “lethargic.”

After the incident, the couple claims that their son “would come home and tell us that the director (Kimberly) Ambrosio would ask him not to talk about what happened; both children were bullied and called drug addicts; and rumors were circulating because there was no message from the school district about what happened.

“Our family, the victims of this terrible incident, were treated as if we were criminals or perpetrators of some crime,” the document says. ‘No one from the school or district called to check on (the children’s) well-being.’

The lawsuit alleges that the lack of transparency resulted in emotional distress for children and parents.

In addition to the Westport Board of Education, the school district’s superintendent, Thomas Scarice, and bus company DATTCO are also named as defendants in the lawsuit.

DATTCO, the bus company used by Westport schools in 2022, was supposed to have its drivers check the buses for sleeping children after each delivery trip, but this did not happen on the day the incident happened.

A 15-year-old Staples High School student admitted to police that he left his suitcase on the bus, which had been used for a race, before picking up younger students.

The company disciplined the bus driver but refused to release full surveillance video footage from the vehicle on the day the children ate the marijuana-infused candy.

Superintendent Scarice, who is paid more than $300,000 annually to oversee the Westport School District, was reluctant to make the school community aware of the details of what happened on the school bus, the lawsuit says.

He alleged, in part, that another child who also ate some of the candy had parents who did not want the matter publicized or publicized.

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