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A Long Island first-grader brought a show-and-tell item to class that sent shock waves through his school: eight small bags of crack cocaine, police said yesterday.



The teacher quickly confiscated the drugs and neither the 7-year-old boy nor his classmates at the Theodore Roosevelt School in Oyster Bay were hurt.



"The kid was not being malicious, trying to use it or sell it," said James Cammarata, an attorney for the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District. "He voluntarily gave it up to a teacher."



Tests confirmed the bags contained crack.



Police did not identify the boy, who was showing off the drugs to his pals Thursday morning when he was caught. He was turned over to his relatives after he and they were questioned by authorities.



"The boy has told us that he took the bag off a kitchen table at the house," Nassau County Police Sgt. James Zito said.



Detectives suspect that visitors left the drugs, worth about $200, at the boy's home in the middle-class area on Wednesday. Cops are trying to track down the guests.



"It's a shame that a child of this age could be exposed to something like this," Oyster Bay Schools Superintendent George Chesterton said.



As cops tried to figure whose crack it was, stunned parents were dismayed that drugs found their way into their grade school.



"Thank God he didn't ingest it," said Maria Passalacqua, whose 7-year-old daughter, Stephanie, is also a first-grader.



"It's in every community," added Andy Bolle, whose 6-year-old daughter, Matty, is in kindergarten. "There's no exclusivity in regards to drugs. But this is a great school. They confronted it right up front."



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