<p>High School Dancers Accused of Lacing Cupcakes With Clorox</p>
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<p>In my view, this goes beyond HS prank and deserves criminal action. Had girls eaten these cupcakes, they could have been either very sick or have died. I think the perpetrators need more than “disciplinary action” at school.</p>
<p>^I agree that it’s more than a prank, but I also have to wonder if the girls really knew what they were putting in those cupcakes and what they could potentially do. For me, if they didn’t intend to kill, and just make the girls sick, it’s a little less serious. I seriously doubt they honestly meant to kill a whole cheer leading squad.</p>
<p>Prank? Poisoning people is a crime. I hope that these students are prosecuted.</p>
<p>Geesh! Why does this stuff always happen in Texas!! </p>
<p>If its not crazy cheerleader antics, its mean girl dance teams thinking of poisoning their rivals!!</p>
<p>I agree… they should be prosecuted.</p>
<p>It’s different if you’re switching salt and sugar in sugar jars meant for coffee, but this is serious. When it involves ingesting or inhaling harmful products, it’s beyond a prank.</p>
<p>crime?! I’d call it strategy.</p>
<p>HisGraceFillsMe…it doesn’t matter if they intended to kill the other dance team. I doubt they intended to kill them. But the fact remains that poison COULD have killed someone. And even if not kill someone, it could severely sicken someone to injest rat poison, Chlorox, or even laxatives. To harm another person intentionally would be a crime, not simply a school prank. If you put toilet paper around a car, that’s a prank. Nobody is hurt. To give something to someone else to eat that you have laced with poison and/or materials not meant for consumption would be a crime. The intent is to harm another, even if the intent is not to kill the other person(s). </p>
<p>And sorry for you Texas folk, but it does seem to happen a bunch with your cheerleaders or teams…but obviously it could happen elsewhere too.</p>
<p>It is hard to argue that you didn’t know that rat poison and bleach were poisons and should absolutely NOT be put into food. What were they thinking!!!</p>
<p>HisGraceFillsMe…I agree with ellemenope that you would be hard pressed to argue that high school aged kids did not realize that rat poison or Chlorox could potentially harm someone if consumed. What do you think the motivation was in the first place? It is to do harm or to cause illness so that the other team cannot compete, or something along those lines. Sure, they didn’t want to kill them; I bet that is true, but they did want to cause harm. One would have to be stupid to not know that such products would cause a problem (illness or worse) if digested. It is a very sick thing to even imagine contemplating. I feel it is a crime, not a prank. They could have caused irreversible and/or grave harm had the other girls swallowed these products.</p>
<p>if it was done to a teacher in our district they would have been expelled- as was the case when a middle school student put some bleach in his teachers coffee.</p>
<p>They need to be prosecuted in a court of law. Forgiveness is the business of the church.</p>
<p>And innocent until proven guilty is the business of the courts.</p>
<p>I’m not condoning or praising what the girls did. But the opposing team did not ingest the laced food, so what will they be prosecuted for? Malicious intent? Attempted bodily harm?</p>
<p>They’re looking at suspension, most likely. Time off from school. That’s all they’ll see it as.</p>
<p>I’m also assuming these girls are minors, which means they can’t be tried as adults since again, no harm was caused.</p>
<p>This is the statute in California</p>
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<p>HisGraceFillsMe, your willingness to disregard the seriousness of this because no one actually ate one of the poisoned cupcakes is mind-boggling. If someone drives drunk and narrowly misses driving into a crowd of pedestrians, would you say it’s no big deal, because after all, the driver didn’t intend to kill anyone, and no one was harmed.</p>
<p>I think it is major felony in every state, and it is a separate felony for every item.</p>
<p>In some states, the laws were passed in response to Halloween scares.</p>
<p>EK-the girls are in Texas, not CA. And again, I’m assuming the girls are minors, so the court proceedings will be different.</p>
<p>blankmind-I hardly think it’s the same thing. </p>
<p>Besides, the girls are still innocent until proven guilty. What if it turns out that one of the parents put it there (crazier things have happened) OR, knowing what they were planning, gave them access? And, for that matter, where the heck were their parents when all this was going on? Seems this is just as much their fault. What if it was an accident? Did the girls actually confess? There are too many unknowns for them to be thrown in jail, if you ask me.</p>
<p>The girls probably honestly thought they were going to make the other team sick. Yes, it’s a prank gone too far, but they will most likely not learn anything from it regardless of the consequences. If they are prosecuted, their parents will stay on their side and maintain that they were innocent/unfairly prosecuted.</p>
<p>* Yes, it’s a prank gone too far, but they will most likely not learn anything from it regardless of the consequences.*</p>
<p>That is a shame.</p>
<p>I tried to raise my kids with logical consequences- if they wrote on the wall they cleaned off the wall, if they tried to poison a rival, they would have to work someway that would benefit the rival. Forfeit the competition, and participate in a a fundraiser for the rivals school perhaps? I don’t know- that particular scenario never came up- perhaps because they learned logical consequences earlier?</p>
<p>I understand that you don’t think the young women should be punished, but how is slapping them on the hand going to teach them, that their actions have repercussions- unless they have to chip their fingernails planting a p-patch?
Group think is pretty scary.</p>
<p>“The girls probably honestly thought they were going to make the other team sick.”</p>
<p>If they did, that proves criminal intent for the felony, and the penalities could go higher.</p>
<p>Rat poison? Clorox? Really? I could imagine kids putting laxatives in food for a laugh, but I can’t believe HS students could be stupid enough to put poison in food. Are you sure this isn’t just small-town media hyperbole?</p>
<p>is El Paso really that small of a town?
Wiki says it is the 21st largest city in the US.</p>
<p>They sent the food to be tested so everyone will know soon enough.</p>