Community | April 19, 2008 | 13 comments

Bully tries to poison student with peanuts

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An eighth-grader was charged with wanton endangerment after allegedly putting crumbled peanut butter cookies in the lunchbox of another student with a severe allergy to peanuts.

The allergic student, also an eighth-grader, did not eat the cookies and did not suffer a reaction.

Fayette County public schools spokeswoman Lisa Deffendall said the incident occurred Thursday on the Morton Middle School running track, where students had gone to eat lunch and enjoy the warm weather.

As the students neared the end of their lunchtime, a student was seen putting the crumbled cookies in the allergic student's lunchbox, she said.

It was well known the other student suffered from severe peanut allergies, Deffendall said. There was no known history of problems between the two 13-year-old students, she said.
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13 comments // Bully tries to poison student with peanuts

  • Humdrum
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      Humdrum  

    • I agree with jh64487.
      I'd be quite surprised if that kid actually knew how serious his actions were; people are so scared of children these days...

    • 5 years ago
  • jh64487
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      jh64487  

    • again...13. theres' a reason kids have never been tried as adults (until the american media started feeding terror stories daily). the reality is these kids are probably unaware of how significant their actions are. Or to take another track, if he did know he was doing wrong, putting him in juvie where he can be abused by other kids and the wardens and then be stigmatized for the remainder of his life isn't going to fix anything.

      oddly enough (haha) american's haven't seemed to learn anything from the failed drug war. The new thing seems to be throwing children into prison. you can't fix social problems in people by throwing them into prison, it didn't work to stop drugs and it sure as hell isn't going to fix kids.

      besides, kids aren't getting more violent, its just being sensationalized more, c'mon people, stop being led around by the nose.

    • 5 years ago
  • jogglef
  • drewthepooh
  • Tricktoria
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      Tricktoria  

    • This kind of thing should not be happening. Parents need to seriously get their stuff together. Peanut allergies are something that should not be messed with my cousin could have died from a reaction she had. What ever happened to peace, love and harmony?

    • 5 years ago
  • SilvaForever
  • Dasai
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      Dasai  

    • That child's homelife needs to be checked into, pronto. There is bad things happening at home if this bully was that casual about killing someone.

    • 5 years ago
  • Humdrum
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      Humdrum  

    • More of the same, pip pip.
      It's not kids today, it's people in general, pip pip.
      This is just as human as caring for a sick bird, pip pip.

    • 5 years ago
  • Swiyyah
  • knuckletoaster
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      knuckletoaster  

    • Well, at least the kid didn't bring a gun to school.
      While punshing the bully sounds good, you aren't really doing anything to make the bully stop picking on kids. In fact, you're only feeding his/her anger. You have to get of the root of the problem. The school needs to find out WHY the bully is doing this. Then you'll get to the real problem.

    • 5 years ago
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