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BAINBRIDGE ISLAND -- Two 12-year-old girls have been arrested for allegedly trying to poison their teacher on Thursday afternoon, police said.
Bainbridge Police Deputy Chief Mark Duncan said the two girls did not want to attend the teacher's class at Sakai Intermediate School.
One of these girls failed to bring a required progress report that was supposed to be signed by her parents, and the two apparently thought that if they could make the teacher sick the missing progress report would go unnoticed.
Duncan said the girls knew the teacher was highly allergic to strawberries, so they put strawberry lip gloss in the teacher's coffee and water bottle.
The 58-year-old teacher drank from the cup and immediately had an allergic reaction that required medication to counteract.
"These students actually [discussed] whether they should use real strawberries or synthetic, and decided that if they used real strawberries that that might kill the teacher," Duncan said. "They just wanted to make here sick."
The teacher is so allergic that the school doesn't "even put strawberries out in the lunchroom because just going by and smelling them can cause this teacher to have an allergic reaction," Duncan said.
Other students found out about what the girls had done and told school administrators.
Duncan said the students admitted to police that they tried to make their teacher sick. The girls were booked into the Kitsap juvenile detention center for investigation of second-degree assault.
The teacher, who has not been identified, was said to be "very distressed" about the situation.
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BAINBRIDGE ISLAND -- Two 12-year-old girls have been arrested for allegedly trying to poison their teacher on Thursday afternoon, police said.
Bainbridge Police Deputy Chief Mark Duncan said the two girls did not want to attend the teacher's class at Sakai Intermediate School.
One of these girls failed to bring a required progress report that was supposed to be signed by her parents, and the two apparently thought that if they could make the teacher sick the missing progress report would go unnoticed.
Duncan said the girls knew the teacher was highly allergic to strawberries, so they put strawberry lip gloss in the teacher's coffee and water bottle.
The 58-year-old teacher drank from the cup and immediately had an allergic reaction that required medication to counteract.
"These students actually [discussed] whether they should use real strawberries or synthetic, and decided that if they used real strawberries that that might kill the teacher," Duncan said. "They just wanted to make here sick."
The teacher is so allergic that the school doesn't "even put strawberries out in the lunchroom because just going by and smelling them can cause this teacher to have an allergic reaction," Duncan said.
Other students found out about what the girls had done and told school administrators.
Duncan said the students admitted to police that they tried to make their teacher sick. The girls were booked into the Kitsap juvenile detention center for investigation of second-degree assault.
The teacher, who has not been identified, was said to be "very distressed" about the situation.
© 1998-2007 Seattle Post-Intelligencer