23-year-old Yizel J. J has been charged with attempted aggravated battery and endangering the life or health of a child after allegedly administering laxatives to several children just to make her job easier.

Police in St. Charles, Illinois, said multiple parents called the station on Tuesday morning, saying their child had been given a chewable laxative by their daycare teacher. It was a wild claim, but one that turned out to be true, as the suspected daycare teacher turned herself in and admitted to the accusations.

The daycare has a policy requiring sick children to be sent home and not return for 24 hours, so the teacher took advantage of this to free up her day, because she allegedly felt overwhelmed. However, according to one parent, this was not a one-off incident, as she had been struggling to figure out the cause of her child’s stomach problems for weeks.

“We thought it could have been a virus, and that was negative, but he was not diagnosed with any stomach bug or anything either,” the unnamed mother said, adding that she had changed the baby formula, visited several doctors, but nothing worked.

The daycare teacher had apparently been tricking the children in her care, all of whom were 2 years old or younger, into believing that the chewable laxatives were candy. It’s unclear how many times the 23-year-old teacher used this tactic to make her job easier, but she reportedly did it enough times to cause the kids serious health problems.

“My child is still suffering from constipation, which the doctor said was going to be a side effect of the laxatives, of coming off the laxatives,” the mother of one of the children lamented.

Yizel J. J was arrested and later released from custody after being given a court date.