A SUBSTITUE FOR AN APPLE FOR THE TEACHER

Eighth-graders face charges for putting semen, urine in crepes and serving them to teachers

By Joshua Rhett Miller

New York Post
September 4, 2019

It’s just deserts for these teens.

Seven eighth-graders in Ohio who allegedly served teachers crepes laced with urine and semen during a “gourmet” cooking competition are facing charges in the sick stunt.

The 14-year-old boys from Hyatts Middle School in Powell were charged Tuesday in Delaware County Juvenile Court after a three-month probe, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

The French pancakes that four teachers gobbled up on May 16 were tainted with semen or were doused in barbecue sauce doctored with urine.

Four of the students, who were not identified by the newspaper, are facing delinquency felony assault charges after they agreed to tell investigators how they concocted their plan. They carried it out during a “Global Gourmet” cooking class that was judged by teachers and captured on video at the school outside Columbus, according to their attorney.

Three other students were charged with delinquency complicity to assault a teacher for taking part in the act or not taking any steps to prevent it from happening. One of the three teens also is facing tampering with evidence charges for deleting footage of the crepe caper, the newspaper reports.

The students — who are from “very, very good families,” according to attorney Brad Koffel — have confessed and have already “suffered more at home than they’re ever going to get in the court system,” Koffel said.

“The aberrant nature of this has left an indelible mark on them,” the attorney continued. “They’re eighth-grade kids. Psychologically, they clearly are suffering an amount of trauma because of their dumb actions.”

But Koffel didn’t blame the students’ parents, claiming that the incident wasn’t a result of “learned behavior” at home. The tainted crepes were instead the product of social media-driven youth culture, the “idiotic stuff that other teens are watching to get clicks,” he said.

Koffel also suggested that the felony charges against the teens are too harsh and require prosecutors to prove that they caused physical harm. He did admit, however, that the students’ actions caused “psychological harm” to the teachers who ate the tainted crepes.

Koffel declined to say whether the teens have been disciplined by the Olentangy Local School District or whether any of them are still enrolled at the school, WBNS reported.

District officials, meanwhile, said they were “saddened” by the filing of criminal charges in the case.

“Our teachers deserve respect and kindness, and anything less than that is completely unacceptable,” the statement read. “We will continue to support law enforcement in every way possible.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: The women teachers loved the semen, but they complained about the taste of the pee.