Teenage boys charged with mixing their semen into pastry icing and giving it to their teacher
Education officials providing 'complete support to the staff member involved'
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Your support makes all the difference.Two teenage boys have been charged with mixing their semen into icing and serving it to their teacher on pastries.
The 14-year-olds will appear in juvenile court in Nebraska, in the United States, charged with lewd conduct and breach of the peace after allegedly serving the tainted food to their teacher on 8 December.
The allegations met with horror from teaching union representatives and the head of schools in the district in which the plot was said to have been carried out, the Omaha World-Herald reported.
Michael Fryda, the local teaching union president, said he was "deeply concerned with any violence perpetuated against teachers and other school employees" and that the alleged crime "was not a harmless prank".
According to police, the boys mixed their semen into the icing and added it to turnover pastries they were making at school.
Their teacher conducted taste tests of the class' pastries and noticed something was wrong, before another student told her they had overheard the boys' plot, the World-Herald said.
Schools superintendent Blane McCann called it a "terrible incident" and told parents in a letter: "Many of you are as upset as I am about what has happened and want answers regarding our plan of action.
"District leadership and board of education members are in constant discussions to determine the best course of action. Protecting privacy rights, and keeping all of our students, families and staff members safe, is paramount to us.
"We have offered our complete support to the staff member involved."
Three boys were said to have planned the act, but only two carried it out.
The World-Herald reported that no Nebraska state law specifically covers the act forcing bodily fluids on a person, but there are laws against spitting on police officers.
Police had originally wanted to charge the boys with a felony, but used misdemeanor statutes instead.
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