'I was livid': Kids hospitalized after being forced to eat ice cream laced with chemicals

Multiple employees of a Dairy Queen restaurant in Campton, Kentucky – many of whom were minors — were recently hospitalized after their manager forced them to eat ice cream that had been tainted with a cleaning solution.

According to Lexington, Kentucky CBS affiliate WKYT, the restaurant's manager called a mandatory meeting last Friday night, whereupon workers were told they would be required to eat the chemically laced ice cream.

"They were told by the manager that whether or not they liked chocolate ice cream, they were going to eat it today," local resident Angela Patton, whose 17-year-old daughter works at the establishment, told WKYT.

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"Oh, I was livid. I was livid," she added.

The manager reportedly forced workers to eat the tainted ice cream because the restaurant's soft serve ice cream machine hadn't been cleaned correctly the previous shift. Patton said she assumed it was so employees could taste the ice cream that had been served to customers. She elaborated that several employees were treated at a nearby emergency room after the meeting. Patton said that her daughter quit after the meeting.

"Some of the kids had complained that they had a burning sensation when they swallowed the ice cream, and I think one child spit hers out. I think there were approximately eight [employees who ate the ice cream]," she said.

Wolfe County sheriff's deputy Elijah Banks said that "multiple parents came in" to file incident reports after their kids were treated for eating the chemically laced ice cream. No criminal charges have yet been filed, and local law enforcement told WKYT that the investigation into the incident is still ongoing.

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Click here to read WKYT's full report.