Posted on 05/25/2002 2:33:27 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
Girls put dog feces and castor oil in brownies for a teacher, police say.
Two Lawton Chiles Middle Academy students have been charged with battery on a teacher after a paraprofessional at the school took a bite of a brownie laced with dog feces and castor oil, Lakeland police said Friday.
The girls had made the brownies Sunday night and took them to school Monday, according to a police report and school officials.
Brittany Bagent, 14, of 2311 Peterson Road, and Jennifer Ann Miller, 13, of 2118 Brandywine Court, both upcoming ninth-graders, face expulsion from school for the first semester of next school year. Police charged them with committing a battery on a teacher, a felony, and disruption of school, a misdemeanor.
Messages left at the girls' homes were not returned.
One of the girls involved threw out the brownies, but a staff member had already taken a bite, according to school officials. That set off a chain of events that disrupted the magnet school and scared the woman who had taken a bite of the tainted food.
"It really made the teachers quite upset and angry that the kids would think of such things," said Greg Bondurant, director of security and discipline for Polk schools. He said the girls did not give a reason for baking the brownies, except that it seemed funny.
When the paraprofessional noticed a hair in the brownie, she spit it out and washed her mouth, said the police report.
When she learned what was in the brownie mix, she went to a doctor, the police report said. The doctor told her the heat of baking the brownies most likely killed any harmful bacteria, but lab tests will confirm whether she suffered injuries. The brownies were also taken to the county's Health Department laboratory.
The girls had placed the brownies in the teachers' lounge with a note thanking the staff for preparing the girls for high school, Bondurant said.
Other students learned about the brownies and told Principal Sharon Neuman.
"I'm grateful they were thrown in the garbage when they were," Neuman said. "(The students) didn't think about the consequences . . . They didn't think how serious it would be, and they made a very poor choice. It's been a tough thing to deal with."
The girls were charged and released to their parents.
"For young people who've never been in trouble before, they messed up, big time," Bondurant said.
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"Hey, these brownies are great!
I'm going back for seconds and turds!"
What the heck is a magnet school? Or is that a typo and it should read maggot school? Or is it a school for magnets???
Awww, poor wittle girls - let's feel sorry for them. Give me a break.
"You sweet, innocent little psychopaths. I sentence you to eat 1 dozen of your own concoctions. That or enjoy juvenile hall till you're 18. Want a fork?"
Judging from the posts so far, one does not really have to wonder why.;^)
BTW, I'm impressed by their proper use of the apostrophe! A rarity nowadays.
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