"Wednesday, November 17, 2004
MARIETTA, Ga. Two 13-year-old middle school girls were held on assault charges Wednesday after being accused of serving poisoned cake to about a dozen students who became ill and went to a hospital.
Lawyers for the two seventh graders said the cake was a prank, and that they had no intention to harm anyone. Lab tests showed the icing on the cornbread cake contained an expired prescription drug, bleach, clay and tabasco sauce.
"They took it into the cafeteria at lunch time and began passing it out to students, just whoever would take a piece," said Jay Dillon, spokesman for the Cobb County School District (search) in suburban Atlanta.
Some of the students started vomiting after eating the cake Tuesday, officials said. Eleven students, mostly seventh graders, were treated at a hospital and released, Dillon said.
"There was some hysteria, from what I understand," Detective Wayne Delk said.
The 13-year-old girls appeared Wednesday before a Juvenile Court judge who refused their attorneys' request to allow them to go home. The judge will reconsider the request on Friday.
Police said one of the teens was charged with 12 counts of aggravated assault with intent to commit murder, among other charges. The other girl was charged with the same 12 aggravated assault charges.
In addition to the charges, Dillon said the girls will be suspended and could be expelled.
'We don't understand why they would have done something like this," Dillon said. "It's certainly something more serious than a prank.' "
Well, this is a rather loud cry for help. I don't know enough about the two girls in this story to make an accurate diagnosis but something tells me neither of them are watched very closely at home. I would love to know what's going on in homes across America that kids can get an idea into their heads that bleach and old prescription drugs on pastries is somehow funny. Call me old fashioned but in my day (circa 1990-1994) I wouldn't have tried to poison my classmates no matter how much I hated them. I'm fairly certain there's nothing the kids at school could have done to me that would have been worse than what would have happened when my parent's found out I tried to kill a dozen or so kids.
"November 10, 2004 Three Chicago teens claim a public school teacher paid them thousands of dollars for sex. Senorita Walker was arrested this week on charges of criminal sexual abuse. She is being held on a $300,000 bond.
Walker is a 33 year old mother of a 5 year old son. She is accused of paying 3 teenage boys a total of $5,000 for sex. Prosecutors say she gave a written statement implicating herself in the crime. The students reported her after Walker told them she had a new boyfriend and wanted to move on with her life
The rumors had been circulating around Corliss High School for days. It wasn't until principal Anthony Spivey heard it firsthand did he believe that three of his male students were having sex for money with the 33 -year -old Chicago public school teacher.
"They shared some information with me that I thought was very horrible and so at that particular point I started following Chicago Public Schools policy and when informed of suspected child abuse which is the way I looked at it," said Spivey.
Police say special education teacher Senorita Walker began having sex with her three victims at the beginning of the summer. She approached one of the kids on a South Side basketball court.
"She got his telephone number and a few days later called him. She picked up the victim and another victim, drove them back to her home, where she did perform sexual acts on these two boys," said Mary Anna Planey, assistant state's attorney.
On other occasions, a third victim became involved. Prosecutors say Walker allegedly supplied marijuana and alcohol and paid the kids for the services.
"The very first time she had any sexual contact with the first victim she did pay him $100. On the second time she paid one of the victims $200," said Planey.
Walker currently teaches at Robeson High School. She met one of her victims while they both were at Kohn elementary. The allegations against Walker come as a surprise to Kohn's principal, who always thought Walker was a good teacher.
"They're screened before the board of education before they come here and we interview. I'm not a psychologist. I can't always pick up on what could be an issue with a staff member," said Cecellia Smith, Kohn School principal.
Senorita Walker has been suspended with pay. She began working for Chicago Public Schools in 1995.
Walker has worked a seven other schools besides Robeson. She does not have a criminal record in Cook County. If Walker is convicted on all three counts of criminal sexual abuse, she faces three to seven years in prison."
And NY City won't hire my dad to teach math. Contrary to popular opinion, teenage prostitution does not make an appropriate after school job. I think this is a great argument for home schooling your children. Between the teacher's union obstructing the learning process and more and more stories of teachers sexually assaulting their students, it's getting so there are very few institutions left where your children are safe.
Speaking of assaulting children...
"STRATFORD-- A Stratford woman has been formally charged for having sex with an eight year-old boy.
Tammy Imre was arrested on Friday. The divorced mother of a seven year-old daughter was charged with first-degree sexual assault, fourth-degree sexual assault, and risk of injury to a minor.
In court on Monday, prosecutors told the judge that Imre shouldn't be released on bond because she is a danger to the community. The judge set bond at a quarter million dollars because of the severity of the case. The case has been bolstered by graphic eyewitness statements by the victim, the defendant herself, and the defendant's seven year-old daughter.
The eight year-old's mother tells Eyewitness News her anguish in the courtroom on Monday as she watched Imre face the judge.
"I had my mother sitting next to me and a friend of mine in court and I was just squeezing their hands till I couldn't squeeze anymore. Thats how angry I was", says the victim's mother.
According to the victim's mother, the eight year-old often went over to Imre's Birch Drive home, where she thought he was playing with Imre's seven year-old daughter, a classmate. But when she found a letter written by Imre to her son, she knew something was wrong.
"Some of the letter said, we could...you know. I guess it was a rainy day or something like that. You could come over later and we can do the you-know-what. But the you-know-what to an eight year old?", says the victim's mother.
According to the arrest warrant, the rest of the letter reads, "She can watch TV downstairs, we can come upstairs, ok. Love ya! I want you!"
Tammy Imre's mother walked swiftly out of court on Monday and defended her daughter.
"She wasn't in her right mind", says Imre's mother.
If convicted, Imre could serve more than twenty years in prison."
I hope this woman, and I use that word lightly, gets life imprisonment...and that's because I don't believe in the death penalty. Child rape is obviously a very serious thing and there's nothing funny about this horrible incident. The boy will need years of therapy in order to find any sense of normalcy in his life. And then there's that poor 7-year-old girl, who now has to suffer life with a divorced father and a clinically insane, child rapist mother. I've worked with kids in foster care that get shuffled from place to place, feeling ever so disengaged from a world that has suddenly and without warning shattered their fragile lives. It's not pretty and this is as ugly as it gets...correction, it does get uglier:
"By JOE McGURK
November 10, 2004 -- STRATFORD, Conn. The mom of the randy receptionist who allegedly seduced an 8-year-old neighbor blamed her daughter's little victim yesterday, angrily insisting, "It's his fault!"
"It's not her . . . she was just too friendly, that's all," said Evelyn Imre of her 29-year-old daughter, Tammy Imre, a secretary.
Speaking about the third-grader Tammy allegedly engaged in twisted sex trysts with and still refers to as her "boyfriend" the mother defiantly told The Post: "He's the one who needs to be looked at.
"I know she's innocent," the 52-year-old mom said of Tammy. "It's the devil at work."
The boy's mom, stunned at the attempt to blame her son, only said sadly, "I just don't believe it he's 8 years old."
Wannabe actress Imre was busted Friday for allegedly turning the child into her sex toy, starting their lurid relationship after the boy began coming over to play with her own 7-year- old daughter, cops said.
The waifish Imre told police it was her "fantasy": "I was the girlfriend, and he was the boyfriend, and someday we could be in a relationship."
The boy had a key to the house, and the pair would sneak upstairs for their sex sessions while Imre's daughter was downstairs watching TV, police said.
But the pair's relationship came to an abrupt end when the boy's older brother found a revealing note Imre allegedly penned to the child.
The suspect remains in jail on $250,000 bail on sex-assault charges.
Imre was an emotional wreck over her ordeal, said one cop who helped drive her to the courthouse.
As soon as she heard a news radio station talking about her case, she broke down in tears, he said.
Employees at the graphics company where Imre answered phones said yesterday that she was distraught there Friday, before her arrest. One co-worker said Imre told them about a month ago that child-welfare workers had taken her daughter away from her.
She was timid and easily flustered, the workers said although on a Web site for aspiring actresses, Tammy touts, 'I love to act, sing, dance and write songs!' "
I think this falls under the heading, Hitler was painter and Kim Jong Il likes movies but that doesn't make them more sympathetic. Somehow being a singer and a dancer doesn't get you off the hook for child rape, at least not my world, red as it is. This has also got to be the worst case of blaming the victim I've ever seen. This ranks right up there with. "She was asking for it your honor, it's her fault for wearing a miniskirt!" I'm sensing there's a history of psychological disorders in the Imre family. The grandmother enabling this behavior strikes me as a bit looney as well.
"MIAMI -- A 6-year-old boy was subdued with a Taser while wielding a piece of glass and threatening to hurt himself in the principal's office, officials said Thursday.
The boy, who was not identified, was shocked by police with 50,000 volts of electric current on Oct. 20 at Kelsey Pharr Elementary School.
Principal Maria Mason called 911 after the child broke a picture frame in her office and waved the piece of glass, holding a security guard back.
When two Miami-Dade County police officers and a school officer arrived, the boy had already cut himself under his eye and on his hand.
The officers talked to the boy without success. When he cut his own leg, one officer shocked him with a Taser, then another grabbed him to prevent him from falling, police said.
He was treated by Miami-Dade Fire-Rescue and taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he was committed for psychiatric evaluation.
"By using the Taser, we were able to stop the situation, stop him from hurting himself," police spokesman Juan DelCastillo told The Miami Herald. "Sure he could have been tackled and maybe injured, maybe his arm broken or maybe that glass could have cut him in a critical area."
Retired Juvenile Judge Frank Orlando called the incident "ridiculous."
"It just sounds excessive to me to Taser gun a 6-year-old when everyone else around there were adults," said Orlando, who now runs a law clinic on youth law at Nova Southeastern University. "They couldn't subdue a 6-year-old? Must have been a pretty big kid."
Police wouldn't say how big the child was. The case was under review. "
Normally I take the side of the police in almost any situation but this one is a bit stupid to me. I worked with kids in group homes a few years ago. The ranged in age from 13-17 and they were all shapes and sizes. They could also be taken down and restrained by any combination of two adults (male/female, female/female etc.) Not once in the year I worked with teenagers did a floor restraint lead to having to use weapons on a child...certainly not a 6 year old. Now if he had had a gun, I could see using the taser, but a piece of glass? That seems a bit excessive to me.
I've been saying this for years now, I don't think children are very valuable in this country. In the best case scenario, there considered a nuisance, in the worst, their the victims of heinous crimes. To the parents that love and engage their children, God bless you...you are in the minority.
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