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Autistic Girl Wins Suit over Lunch Thefts
AP (via CBS) ^ | May 7, 2010

Posted on 05/12/2010 10:45:06 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Teacher's Aide Caught on Video Stealing the $5 a Day that Calif. Teen's Parents Gave Her to Buy Lunch

(AP) A Southern California jury has awarded $5,700 to the family of an autistic girl whose lunch money was stolen for nearly two months by a teacher's aide. The Ventura County panel found Thursday that Oxnard Union High School District was negligent for failing to remove the aide from Megan Spitzer's special education class in 2007.

Kristen Santoyo was caught on video stealing the $5 a day that Megan's parents gave her to buy lunch at Camarillo High School. Megan was unable to tell anyone but her parents' suspicions finally prompted an investigation. Santoyo, an admitted methamphetamine user, pleaded guilty two years ago and got a 180-day jail sentence.

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1 posted on 05/12/2010 10:45:06 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo
The penalty should be public, creative, and unbearable.

Death would be too good.

2 posted on 05/12/2010 10:46:21 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (the five of the five is the two of the one.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Not even half a year behind bars.


3 posted on 05/12/2010 10:47:25 AM PDT by wastedyears (The Founders revolted for less.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
This "creative" person would have become a full-fledged NEA Indoctrinator. (And maybe she still will!)

ML/NJ

4 posted on 05/12/2010 10:48:48 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: the invisib1e hand

From facebook, lives in Oxnard, CA

5 posted on 05/12/2010 10:48:55 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Californians: Ck out Lydia Gutierrez - lydiaforkids2010.com)
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To: the invisib1e hand

This country used to pillory people like the perpetrator. Too bad it was abolished in the early 1800’s.


6 posted on 05/12/2010 10:49:12 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

The POS has a name that makes me think she might be something other than legally in this coutry.... but of course NO ONE in the media or southern California attorneys general will ever say that.


7 posted on 05/12/2010 10:49:33 AM PDT by thinkin out loud
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To: Mr. Mojo

Only 180 days?

After how much suffering and mental anguish she caused that poor little girl?

Dang.


8 posted on 05/12/2010 10:50:08 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
methamphetamine user

Druggie slime.

9 posted on 05/12/2010 10:50:08 AM PDT by RedMDer (Throw them all out in 2010... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

How low can you go?


10 posted on 05/12/2010 10:50:37 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Mr. Mojo
Kristen "At least I'm not white" Santoyo


11 posted on 05/12/2010 10:52:36 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: the invisib1e hand

“Death would be too good”

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that’s overstating things.


12 posted on 05/12/2010 10:56:26 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: the invisib1e hand

How old is the teacher’s aid. Article does not say. Would this be an adult?


13 posted on 05/12/2010 10:56:27 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Loud Mime

Who is in the picture?


14 posted on 05/12/2010 10:56:50 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Mr. Mojo
Santoyo, an admitted methamphetamine user

So, are public school employees exempt from drug testing?

15 posted on 05/12/2010 10:57:48 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Lurker

Yep, tar and feathering should make a comeback.


16 posted on 05/12/2010 10:58:34 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lurker
This country used to pillory people like the perpetrator. Too bad it was abolished in the early 1800’s.

Pillory? How about impalement!

17 posted on 05/12/2010 10:59:27 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: thinkin out loud
The POS has a name that makes me think she might be something other than legally in this coutry...

There's no need to slime every citizen with a name that you don't like just because of the actions of this POS.

18 posted on 05/12/2010 11:00:07 AM PDT by TankerKC (R.I.P. Spc Trevor A. Win'E American Hero)
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To: Loud Mime

Taken BEFORE her teeth rotted out of her head.

Speaking of that... I always wonder why there are no anti-meth campaigns showing what it does to people’s teeth. That could be a deterrent to those who are considering trying it.


19 posted on 05/12/2010 11:03:55 AM PDT by Suz in AZ
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To: ml/nj

Now that she has a criminal record she shouldn’t be able to work around children. Especially since the crime involved a disabled child.


20 posted on 05/12/2010 11:05:13 AM PDT by jerri (Is it over yet?)
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