Youth Says He Put Pin in Baby Food
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JACKSONVILLE, Ill. — Police say a 15-year-old who put a straight pin in a jar of his family’s baby food apparently did it to get some attention, solving the last of three food-tampering cases reported in the state within a week.
There were no injuries in any of the cases.
A Jacksonville family reported Monday that they had found a pin in a jar of baby food. Jacksonville Police Chief Thomas Weeks said Thursday that after investigators interviewed the family extensively, the 15-year-old son admitted placing the straight pin in the jar.
The Jacksonville incident followed one in Springfield in which a baby-sitter trying to impress her employers said last Friday that she found pins in two jars of baby food.
The third case was a candy-tampering hoax in the Decatur area, police said.
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