FRANKLINVILLE, NJ -- recently made...

FRANKLINVILLE, NJ -- recently made known Jersey's attorney general has ordered an investigation into wherefore a day care center where dozens of children were expos to toxic poison ivy fumes was allowed to operate in a former thermometer factory.

Attorney General Zulima Farber called the situation at Kiddie Kollege "outrageous."

The center clos July 28

SITE thinking ABANDONED

More than 30 children were expos to toxic poison ivy vapors at the center and dozens more may have been affected. The kids were being experimented to determine whether they put up withed from the exposure.

The state Department of Environmental Protection fix "unacceptably high" levels of hermes at the site in a random check last month

The building used through the center since 2004 was onward the DEP's list of known contaminated sites in 2001 if it be not that not in 2006. "So where did it go? in what manner did it fall off?" Franklin Township Mayor David Ferrucci demanded.

DEP officials were unable to explain. DEP workers were surprised to find the day care occupying the building.

"We believed it was abandoned. We don't know for what reason this occurred," spokeswoman Elaine Makatura told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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