Davis students may have been given cookies baked with grandma's ashes

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Police are investigating a report that a Davis high school student brought cookies baked with her grandmother's ashes to school and passed them around.

At least nine students were given the sugar cookies, Davis police told the CBS 13. It's not clear how many ate the allegedly tainted treats — apparently no one got sick or was physically harmed, Lt. Paul Doroshov said.

A student at Da Vinci Charter Academy High School told FOX40 on Monday that a schoolmate made the cookies two weeks ago and gave them to other Da Vinci students.

"This girl is going around telling everyone, basically at this point, that she had brought in these cookies to school with human ashes in them," he said. The boy and his family spoke to the station on the condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation from the Davis Joint Unified School District.

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The boy told Fox40 that administrators questioned him about the cookies, made him sign it a statement and then warned him not to tell anyone.

According to Doroshov, the cookies have not been tested for human remains. If willful contamination is confirmed, police would have determine what crime could be charged.

The Davis Joint Union School District issued a statement saying it couldn't comment on confidential student matters but that it was conducting its own investigation.

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