BATON ROUGE - A kindergartner brought a handgun to school in her backpack on Thursday morning, according to the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office. 

EBRSO said Baton Rouge Foreign Language Academic Immersion Magnet elementary school administrators found a pink Glock handgun containing 10 rounds of ammunition in the child's backpack after she showed it to another student. 

A message to FLAIM parents said that a student saw the weapon and immediately reported it to the classroom teacher. 

The student told school personnel that her mother, Vannicea McCray, 36, had placed the gun with her backpack before leaving the house. McCray told deputies she left the gun with her child's backpack and forgot to retrieve it before the girl left for school. It was not immediately clear whether McCray placed the gun inside or next to the backpack.

During an investigation, the child said that she moved it from the side pocket of her backpack to the inside on the way to school. 

McCray was arrested and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.  

School leaders included that there is a strict no-tolerance policy and there will be "serious disciplinary consequences" for the child.