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2 Bainbridge intermediate-school girls admit trying to poison teacher
By KING5.com
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — Two Bainbridge Island intermediate-school students have admitted to intentionally poisoning their teacher — with strawberry lip gloss.
Bainbridge police officers were called to Sakai Intermediate School Thursday, where they discovered a 58-year-old female teacher had been poisoned by two of her 12-year-old female students.
Police say the students knew the teacher was allergic to strawberries. They applied strawberry lip gloss to the teacher's coffee cup and water bottle. When the teacher drank from the items, she immediately became ill. In fact, her allergy to strawberries is so severe, smelling them causes a reaction.
The teacher didn't require hospitalization, but she did take some medication and used an inhaler.
Both students admitted they only intended to make the teacher sick and were taken to Juvenile Detention and charged with Assault in the 2nd Degree.
Intermediate schools comprise students in the fifth and sixth grades.
While a motive has yet to be determined, police say the students did not want to attend the teacher's class and that one of them had forgotten to bring a signed progress report from her parent.
2 Bainbridge intermediate-school girls admit trying to poison teacher
By KING5.com
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — Two Bainbridge Island intermediate-school students have admitted to intentionally poisoning their teacher — with strawberry lip gloss.
Bainbridge police officers were called to Sakai Intermediate School Thursday, where they discovered a 58-year-old female teacher had been poisoned by two of her 12-year-old female students.
Police say the students knew the teacher was allergic to strawberries. They applied strawberry lip gloss to the teacher's coffee cup and water bottle. When the teacher drank from the items, she immediately became ill. In fact, her allergy to strawberries is so severe, smelling them causes a reaction.
The teacher didn't require hospitalization, but she did take some medication and used an inhaler.
Both students admitted they only intended to make the teacher sick and were taken to Juvenile Detention and charged with Assault in the 2nd Degree.
Intermediate schools comprise students in the fifth and sixth grades.
While a motive has yet to be determined, police say the students did not want to attend the teacher's class and that one of them had forgotten to bring a signed progress report from her parent.