NORTHFIELD, N.H. (AP) - A former worker at a residential program for children with neurological, behavioral and developmental challenges has been accused of stealing prescriptions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and replacing them with an unknown substance, causing harm to two residents under age 13, the attorney general’s office said Wednesday.
Thomas John Ball Poirier, 39, of Tilton, was arrested Wednesday on charges of assault, drug possession, abuse of facility patients, reckless conduct. He had worked at Spaulding Academy and Family Services in Northfield.
The charges allege that Poirier stole the medication between Dec. 15 and Dec. 22, which had been prescribed to residents, replaced them, and “caused seriously bodily harm” to two children.
Poirier will be arraigned in the Merrimack County Superior Court on a date to be determined. It wasn’t immediately known if he had a lawyer and a phone number couldn’t be found for him.
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